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G723  1917 

Graham, 

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The  phi 

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Christ 

ianity 

THE  PHILOSOPHY 
OF  CHRISTIANin 


BY 

BOTHWELL  GRAHAM 


ECCE,  DEUS-HOMO 


COI^UMBIA,  S.  C. 
THE  R.  Iv-  BRYAN  COMPANY 

1917 


Copyright  1917 
BOTHWELL  GRAHAM 


"Commit  thy  works  unto  the  Lord 
And  thy  thoughts  shall  be  established." 

Prov.  3:16. 


TO 

M.  McN.  McKAY 
W.  G.  WOODBRIDGE 
J.  W.  WALDEN* 
E.  W.  FORD 

In  the  gracious  providence  of  God  his  one-time  pastors,  this 
volume  is  gratefully  inscribed  by  their  insolvent  debtor,  the — 

Author. 


Acknowledgment    is    hereby    made    of    valued    assistance 
received  of 
BoTHWELL  Graham,  Jr.,  A.  B.  (Georgia),  A.  M.  (Harvard) 

Professor  in  the  Presbyterian  College  of  South  Carolina, 

Clinton,  S.  C, 
In  the  careful  correction  of  proof  texts,  in  intelligent  criti- 
cism of  the  argument  and  in  sustaining  sympathy  with  the 
Author's  effort  to  ground  the  "Orthodox"  Christian  doctrines 
in  rational  principles. 


INTRODUCTION. 

Postulates,  Principles  and  Definitions. 

1.  "God  is  a  Spirit." 

2.  "Hear,  O  Israel,  the  Lord  our  God  is  One  Lord." 

3.  "There  are  three  Persons  in  the  Godhead,  the  Father, 
the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Spirit ;  and  these  are  one  God." 

4.  "The  three  Persons  of  the  Godhead  are  of  one  essence, 
consubstantial  each  with  the  others." 

5.  The  three  are  differentiated  in  person  and  in  office;  and 
yet  they  possess  their  personal  distinctions  in  complete  sphe- 
ricity and  exercise  their  several  offices  in  free  and  perfect 
conspiracy. 

6.  "And  God  created  man  in  his  own  image,  in  the  image  of 
God  created  he  him,  male  and  female  created  he  them." 

7.  In  the  Manhead  there  are  three  persons,  Adam,  Eve 
and  the  Son ;  and  these  three  are  one  Man. 

8.  The  three  are  differentiated  in  person  and  in  office ;  and 
yet  in  their  normal  estate,  they  progressively  possess  their 
personal  distinctions  in  complete  sphericity  and  discharge 
their  several  offices  in  free  and  perfect  conspiracy. 

9.  The  Son  is  the  immediate  offspring,  who  mediates  the 
reproduction  of  Adam  in  the  human  race.  In  the  larger 
sense  the  Son  is  the  human  race  progenerate. 

10.  The  Son  in  neither  sense  is  in  himself  an  organism, 
or  solidarity;  but  as  the  Son  (in  latter  sense)  progressively 
achieves  his  sonship,  he  approaches  the  actualization  of  his 
own  individual  personality.  The  human  race  (progenerate) 
is.  therefore,  a  solidarity  more  or  less  completely  actualized 
so  long,  and  only  so  long,  as  it  sustains  its  normal  relation  to 
its  head,  Adam.  It  is  then  in  Adam  that  the  human  race 
(progenerate)  has  its  principle  of  unity  or  solidarity. 


11  Introduction. 

11.  Adam's  regeneration,  consequent  on  his  hypothetically 
free  and  loyal  obedience,  conditions  the  normal  progeneration 
of  the  Son. 

12.  The  indestructible  unity  of  tlie  human  trinity  is 
achieved  in  Adam's  complete  reproduction  of  himself  in  his 
Son ;  and  this  in  turn  will  involve  the  complete  incarnation  of 
the  Divine  Psyche  in  Triune  Man. 

13.  God  created  the  Natural  World  and  generated  Adam 
(processes  hereafter  to  be  sharply  discriminated)  through 
the  mediation  of  His  eternally  begotten  Son,  the  Divine 
Psyche.  God  is  then  the  Creator  of  the  natural  world  and 
the  Generator  of  man ;  and  the  Son,  the  Divine  Psyche,  is  the 
mediator  of  both  Processions. 

14.  "And  God  saw  everything  that  he  had  made,  and 
behold,  it  was  very  good."  But  neither  the  creation  of  the 
natural  world  nor  the  generation  of  man  was  an  ultimate, 
complete  end  in  and  of  itself. 

15.  God  lowered  his  Being  in  his  generated  Son,  the 
Divine  Psyche;  and  the  Divine  Psyche  lowered  his  Being  in 
his  generated  Son,  the  human  psychical  Adam.  The  Divine 
Pneumatical  Being  descended  to  the  Third  Realm  of  Being 
in  Adam. 

16.  On  the  other  hand,  God,  through  the  mediation  of  the 
Divine  Psyche,  raised  Nature  out  of  the  Absolute  Naught  and 
the  physical  organism  of  Adam  out  of  Nature.  The  Abso- 
lute Naught  is  thus  raised  to  the  third  Realm  of  Existence  in 
the  body  (Soma)  of  Adam;  and  the  descending  scale  of  Being 
and  the  ascending  scale  of  Existence  meet  and  unite  without 
fusion  in  the  first  man.  "And  the  Lord  God  formed  man  of 
the  dust  of  the  ground,  and  breathed  into  his  nostrils  the 
breath  of  life;  and  man  became  a  living  Soul"  (Psyche). 
The  meeting  of  the  two  in  man  renders  normally  impossible 
the  further  lowering  of  Being.  Adam  is  therefore  unable 
to  generate  a  lower  Realm  of  Psychical  Being  or  create  a 
higher  Realm  of  Existence.  He  may,  however,  multiply  both 
soul  and  body,  that  is,  he  may  progenerate  both  the  soul  and 


Introduction.  hi 

body  of  his  offspring.  But  Normal  Progeneration  of  offspring 
is,  it  will  be  shown,  consequent  and  conditioned  on  his  Divine 
Psychical  regeneration. 

17.  But  what  has  been  lowered  is  to  be  raised  again;  for 
the  raising  again  of  that  which  has  been  lowered  is  the  logical 
complement  of  the  lowering  process. 

18.  The  lowering  was  accomplished  by  generation,  a  sub- 
liminal process ;  the  raising  is  to  be  achieved  by  regeneration,  a 
transcendental  process.  Regeneration  is,  therefore,  the  log- 
ical complement  of  generation. 

19.  But  the  Realm  of  Being  to  be  raised  again  is  personal ; 
therefore.  Regeneration  is  conditioned  on  the  free  and  loyal 
obedience  of  the  person  to  be  raised  again.  The  Divine 
Psyche  must  freely  subject  himself  to  the  will  of  God;  Adam 
must  freely  subject  himself  to  the  will  of  the  Divine  Psyche. 
But  the  processes  of  deliberation  through  which  the  righteous 
decisions  are  reached  differ  one  from  another  in  important 
features.  These  are  to  be  set  forth  in  their  appropriate  con- 
nections.  But  this,  by  way  of  anticipation,  may  be  said  here: 

20.  The  Command  to  the  Divine  Psyche  is  Positive;  that 
to  Adam,  Negative.  The  Divine  Psyche  is  impeccable ;  Adam, 
peccable.      These  facts  are  later  to  be  rationalized. 

21.  For  reasons  that  will  be  amply  justified  hereafter,  it 
is  to  be  assumed  in  the  earlier  parts  of  this  volume  that 
Adam  freely  obeyed  the  Divine  Command :  "But  of  the  tree  of 
the  knowledge  of  good  and  evil,  thou  shalt  not  eat  of  it",  and 
that  Adam  was  consequently  regenerated. 

22.  And  regenerated  Adam  was  now  qualified  to  respond 
to  the  positive  Command:  "Be  fruitful  and  multiply  and 
replenish  the  earth" — without  the  lowering  or  prejudice  of 
his  Being  in  his  offspring,  which  could  not  have  been  pre- 
vented, as  we  shall  more  fully  see,  had  he  prior  to  his  regen- 
eration undertaken,  under  temptation,  to  function  in  the  pro- 
generation  of  offspring.  Moreover,  a  premature  functioning 
here  would  have  involved  the  degradation  of  himself  (soul  and 


rv  Introduction. 

body),  the  ruin  of  the  human  race  to  the  last  generation,  and 
the  collapse  of  the  Cosmos. 

23.  The  fulfillment  of  regenerate  Adam's  commission  with 
respect  to  his  son,  the  human  race,  involves  a  twofold  func- 
tion :  ( 1 )  He  progenerates  his  human  Psychical  Son,  the 
human  race,  in  a  manner  hereinafter  to  be  set  forth;  and  (2) 
conditions  the  regeneration  of  his  impeccable  offspring  to  the 
last  (pro) generation. 

24.  Pneuma=Spirit,  the  Absolute  Divine  Being;  Logos=^ 
Divine  Thought  Personalized ;  logos^science ;  Psyche^the 
Soul ;  the  Divine  Psyche=Logos,  Son  of  God ;  the  Human 
Psyche=^the  soul  of  man ;  Soma^living  bod}'  of  man ; 
Cosmos==the  natural  world. 

25.  (O)  Sis=action;  Pneumaticosis=the  processes  of  the 
Pneumatical  Being;  the  Divine  Psychosis^the  Divine 
Psyche's  processes ;  the  Human  Psychosis^the  Human 
Psyche's  processes ;  Somaticosis=the  human  body's  proc- 
esses; Cosmicosis=the  processes  of  the  Natural  World; 
Pneumatology^Science  of  the  Divine  Being,  or  of  His  Pneu- 
maticoses ;  The  Divine  Ps3'chology=The  Science  of  the 
Divine  Psyche,  or  of  his  Psychoses ;  Human  Psychology= 
Science  of  the  Human  Ps3'che  or  of  his  Psychoses ;  Soma- 
tology^The  Science  of  the  Human  bod}^  or  of  its  Somati- 
coses ;  Cosmology  (Cosmicology)=the  Science  of  the  Nat- 
ural World  or  of  its  Cosmicoses. 

26.  Philosophy  is  the  Science  of  these  sciences ;  and  has  for 
its  ultimate  end  the  due  and  orderly  subordination  of  the 
several  lower  sciences  under  the  science  of  the  Divine  Being, 
or  Pneumatology.  The  Divine  Psychosis  ma}'  be  derived  by 
lowering  the  Pneumaticosis  into  the  second  Realm  of  Being; 
the  human  Psychosis,  by  lowering  the  Divine  Psj^chosis  into 
the  third  Realm  of  Being;  the  Somaticosic  by  lowering  the 
human  Ps3'chosis  into  the  third  Realm  of  Existence,  or  by 
raising  the  Cosmocosis  into  the  third  Realm  of  Existence ;  the 
Somaticosis  is,  therefore,  a  mediator  between  the  human 
Psychosis  and  the  Cosmicosis.      Hence,  it  may  be  inferred 


Introduction.  v 

that  nature  is  the  word  of  Divine  Psyche,  and  therefore  of 
God,  to  the  human  psyche. 

27.  Now,  it  is  obvious  that  there  can  be  no  real  human 
Psychology  except  as  it  realizes  its  relation  to,  and  depend- 
ence on,  the  Divine  Psychology.  "No  Psychology  without  a 
Psyche"  is  now  very  generally  accepted  as  a  truism.  It  needs 
to  be  amended:  no  human  Psychology  apart  from  the  Divine 
Psychology. 

28.  Man  is  related  to  God  through  the  Divine  Psyche,  and 
to  nature  through  his  Soma.  Man  therefore  can  know  God 
only  as  He  is  self-revealed  in  the  Divine  Psyche ;  he  can 
know  nature  fundamentally  only  through  the  mediation  of 
his  Soma. 

29.  It  may  therefore  be  inferred  that  the  Cosmicosis  is  the 
symbol  of  the  Somaticosis ;  the  Somaticosis  of  the  human 
Psychosis  ;  the  human  Psychosis  of  the  Divine  Psychosis  ;  and 
the  Divine  Psychosis  of  the  Pneumaticosis. 

30.  Man  cannot  directly  reflect  the  Pneumaticosis,  but  he 
can  raise  again  the  Divine  Psychosis  into  the  Pneumaticosis; 
or  in  other  words,  unfallen  and  regenerate  man  can  translate 
the  Divine  Psychosis  (as  a  symbol)  into  the  Pneumaticosis; 
and,  thereby,  know  and  hold  communion  with  God  as  He  is 
self-revealed  in  the  Divine  Psyche. 

31.  But  Adam,  though  unfallen  and  Divine  psychically 
regenerate,  cannot  deepen  his  intuitive  cognition  of  the  Divine 
Psyche  except  as  the  Divine  Psyche  deepens  his  revelation 
of  himself.  The  Ascending  self-revelation  is  a  progressive 
process,  or  a  Divine  Psychosic  Procession.  That  is,  the 
Divine  Psyche's  revelation  of  himself  to  Adam  involves  the 
reciprocal  co-functioning  of  the  Divine  Psyche  of  Adam.  The 
Human  Psychosis  must  freely  co-operate  with  the  penetrant 
Divine  Psychosis,  and  be  interwoven  therewith.  Adam  rises  in 
his  cognition  of  the  Divine  Psyche  only  as  he  responsively 
receives  His  self-revelation. 

32.  This  corroborates  the  intuitive  conclusion,  that  the 
Divine  Psychosis  and  the  Human  Psychosis  are  at  one  in  the 


VI  Introduction. 

mode  of  tlieir  respective  processes.  Further  the  same 
may  be  affirmed  of  the  modal  processes  of  the  Pneumaticosis 
and  the  Divine  Psychosis ;  and  yet  further,  the  general 
statement  may  be  made  that  the  modal  processes  of  the  three 
several  Realms  of  Being  are  accordant  with  one  another. 

33.  But  what  of  the  processes  of  the  Soma  and  of  the 
Cosmos?  Are  they  modally  in  accord  with  each  other  and 
with  the  general  process  of  the  several  Realms  of  Being.''  Yes ; 
to  both  questions.  The  developed  Adam  exercises  dominion 
over  his  Soma,  by  superinducing  the  corresponding  Soma- 
ticosis ;  and  his  progressive  dominion  over  Nature,  by  the 
superinduction  of  the  appropriate  Cosmlcosis.  Further- 
more, Nature  is  (by  postulate)  the  objective  realization  of 
the  progressive  thought  of  the  Divine  Psyche,  and  therefore 
an  obverse  image  or  symbol  of  the  corresponding  Divine 
Psychosis. 

34*.  And  yet  again:  The  Human  Psychosis  is  subjectively 
the  symbol  of  the  Divine  Psychosis  and  Nature  its  objective 
Symbol;  therefore,  it  follows  that  Nature  is  the  lower  objec- 
tive Symbol  of  the  corresponding  human  Psychosis.  Nature 
is  therefore  the  primal  word  of  the  Divine  Psyche,  and, 
more  remotely,  of  God  to  Man. 

35.  Man  in  appropriating  the  Divine  thought  embodied  in 
nature  superinduces  ideally  the  corresponding  Cosmicosis. 

36.  It  is  therefore  concluded  that  the  processes  of  all 
Realms,  whether  of  Being  or  of  Existence,  are  one  and  the 
same  in  mode. 

37.  The  Common  Process  may  be  derived  from  man's 
method  of  appropriating  the  divine  thought  expressed  in 
Nature.  In  this  process  there  are  three  steps:  (1)  The 
Thesis;  (2)  The  Analysis;  (3)  The  Synthesis.  First,  the 
the  Synthesis.  Again,  consider  the  Cosmicosic  process  of  a 
given  psychical  organism  in  its  progress  from  one  stage  to 
the  object  is  mentally  broken  up  into  its  parts,  this  the 
natural  object  is  mentally  laid  hold  of,  the  Thesis;  secondly, 
Analysis ;  thirdly,  the  several  parts  are  mentally  integrated, 


Introduction.  vii 

the  next  higher.  The  Formal  Process :  ( 1 )  The  Thesis  ;  the 
Organism  at  its  given  stage  is  Posited.  (2)  The  Analysis; 
the  Organism  is  differentiated  into  two  or  more  organs  (or 
into  two  or  more  clearly  defined  organs).  (3)  The  Synthesis ; 
the  Analysis  is  overcome,  yet  preserved;  the  differentiated 
organs  are  more  firmly  integrated  into  the  organism.  The 
oneness,  the  entirety,  or  the  integrity  of  the  organism  is 
exactly  proportioned  to  the  completeness  of  the  organ's  dif- 
ferentiations. 

38.  The  General  Process  is  self-active,  although  it  be 
transcendentally  superinduced  and  subliminally  sustained; 
that  is,  all  lower  processes,  though  set  free  by  a  transcen- 
dental and  sustained  by  a  lower  process,  are  relatively  (not 
absolutely)  self-active. 

39.  The  Processes  of  Being  and  Existence  constitute  a 
descending  scale  of  self-activities,  having  their  common  source 
or  origin,  in  the  Pneumaticosis.  In  this  scale,  the  Pneu- 
maticosis  expresses  the  eternal  absolute  unconditioned  self- 
activity  of  God;  the  Divine  Psychosis,  the  eternal  delegated 
self-activity  of  the  Son  of  God;  the  Human  Psychosis,  in  its 
higher  orders,  the  morally  conditioned  self-activity  of  Adam ; 
the  Somaticosis,  in  its  higher  orders,  the  dependent  self- 
activity  of  Adam's  body ;  and  finally  the  Cosmicosis,  the  ulti- 
mately subordinated  self-activity  of  the  Natural  World. 

40.  Every  Self -activity  logically  foresupposes  a  subject, 
the  Agent,  and  an  object,  the  person  or  thing,  acted  on.  The 
action  originates  in  the  subject,  and  is  a  process;  and  it  ter- 


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VI  Introduction. 

mode  of  their  respective  processes.  Further  the  same 
may  be  affirmed  of  the  modal  processes  of  the  Pneumaticosis 
and  the  Divine  Psychosis ;  and  yet  further,  the  general 
statement  may  be  made  that  the  modal  processes  of  the  three 
several  Realms  of  Being  are  accordant  with  one  another. 

33.  But  what  of  the  processes  of  the  Soma  and  of  the 
Cosmos?  Are  they  modally  in  accord  with  each  other  and 
with  the  general  process  of  the  several  Realms  of  Being?  Yes  ; 
to  both  questions.  The  developed  Adam  exercises  dominion 
over  his  Soma,  by  superinducing  the  corresponding  Soma- 
ticosis;  and  his  progressive  dominion  over  Nature,  by  the 
superinduction  of  the  appropriate  Cosmicosis.  Further- 
more, Nature  is  (by  postulate)  the  objective  realization  of 
the  progressive  thought  of  the  Divine  Psyche,  and  therefore 
an  obverse  image  or  symbol  of  the  corresponding  Divine 
Psychosis. 

34?.  And  yet  again:  The  Human  Psychosis  is  subjectively 
the  symbol  of  the  Divine  Psychosis  and  Nature  its  objective 
Symbol;  therefore,  it  follows  that  Nature  is  the  lower  objec- 
tive Symbol  of  the  corresponding  human  Psychosis.  Nature 
is  therefore  the  primal  word  of  the  Divine  Psyche,  and, 
more  remotely,  of  God  to  Man. 

35.  Man  in  appropriating  the  Divine  thought  embodied  in 
nature  superinduces  ideally  the  corresponding  Cosmicosis. 

36.  It  is  therefore  concluded  that  the  processes  of  all 
Realms,  whether  of  Being  or  of  Existence,  are  one  and  the 
same  in  mode. 


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37.  The  Common  Process  may  be  derived  from  man's 
method  of  appropriating  the  divine  thought  expressed  in 
Nature.  In  this  process  there  are  three  steps:  (1)  The 
Thesis;  (2)  The  Analysis;  (3)  The  Synthesis.  First,  the 
natural  object  is  mentally  laid  hold  of,  the  Thesis;  secondly, 
the  object  is  mentally  broken  up  into  its  parts,  this  the 
Analysis;  thirdly,  the  several  parts  are  mentally  integrated, 
the  Synthesis.  Again,  consider  the  Cosmicosic  process  of  a 
given  physical  organism  in  its  progress  from  one  stage  to 


Introduction.  vii 

the  next  higher.  The  Formal  Process:  (1)  The  Thesis;  the 
Organism  at  its  given  stage  is  Posited.  (2)  The  Analysis; 
the  Organism  is  differentiated  into  two  or  more  organs  (or 
into  two  or  more  clearly  defined  organs).  (3)  The  Synthesis ; 
the  Analysis  is  overcome,  yet  preserved;  the  differentiated 
organs  are  more  firmly  integrated  into  the  organism.  The 
oneness,  the  entirety,  or  the  integrity  of  the  organism  is 
exactly  proportioned  to  the  completeness  of  the  organ's  dif- 
ferentiations. 

38.  The  General  Process  is  self-active,  although  it  be 
transcendentally  superinduced  and  subliminally  sustained; 
that  is,  all  lower  processes,  though  set  free  by  a  transcen- 
dental and  sustained  by  a  lower  process,  are  relatively  (not 
absolutely)  self-active. 

39.  The  Processes  of  Being  and  Existence  constitute  a 
descending  scale  of  self-activities,  having  their  common  source 
or  origin,  in  the  Pneumaticosis.  In  this  scale,  the  Pneu- 
maticosis  expresses  the  eternal  absolute  unconditioned  self- 
activity  of  God;  the  Divine  Psychosis,  the  eternal  delegated 
self-activity  of  the  Son  of  God;  the  Human  Psychosis,  in  its 
higher  orders,  the  morally  conditioned  self-activity  of  Adam ; 
the  Somaticosis,  in  its  higher  orders,  the  dependent  self- 
activity  of  Adam's  body ;  and  finally  the  Cosmicosis,  the  ulti- 
mately subordinated  self-activity  of  the  Natural  World. 

40.  Every  Self-activity  logically  foresupposes  a  subject, 
the  Agent,  and  an  object,  the  person  or  thing,  acted  on.  The 
action  originates  in  the  subject,  and  is  a  process;  and  it  ter- 
minates (consciously  or  unconsciously^  on  an  object,  and  is 
also  a  process.  These  two  processes  are  co-ordinate — the 
one  subjective,  the  other  objective.  Every  self-active  proc- 
ess is  therefore  dual,  embracing  a  subjective  and  an  objective 
process.  In  the  lower  estates  of  Existence,  there  is  no  evidence 
of  the  presence  of  consciousness. 

41.  God,  as  eternal  Absolute  and  unconditioned  Being, 
must  be  at  once  the  subject  and  the  object  of  the  Pneu- 
maticosis.    The  Subjective  and  the  Objective  process  must 


VIII  Introduction. 

have  their  sphere  of  activity  entirely  within  the  Divine  Being. 
The  Pneuniaticosis  can  have  only  for  its  chief  end  the  eternal 
self-evolution  of  God.  The  Divine  Being  is  eternally 
Dynamic. 

42.  It  is  therefore  utterly  impossible  to  God,  because  of 
the  exalted  transcendence  of  His  Being,  immediately  to 
create  Nature  or  to  generate  Man.  Therefore,  He  was  self- 
constrained  to  create  Nature  and  to  generate  Man  throucrh 
the  mediation  of  His  eternally  begotten  Son. 

43.  By  hypothesis,  Adam  in  the  foregoing  synopsis  has 
been  represented  as  freely,  obediently,  responsive  to  his  Lord ; 
but  the  actual  history  of  man  does  not  conform  to  his  hypo- 
thetical history.  The  conclusion  is  therefore  inevitable: 
That  Adam  by  disobedience  actually  fell  from  his  estate 
of  innocency,  and  thereby  involved  his  Son  (the  human  race) 
in  sin  and  total  depravity  and  Nature  in  ruin.  And  this 
conclusion  is  corroborated  by  the  divinely  inspired  Word 
of  God. 

44.  If  God  is  to  restore  and  to  bring  to  perfection  fallen 
man  and  collapsed  Nature,  He  is  self-constrained  to  raise  up 
another  ^Mediator  between  Himself  and  fallen  Man.  This 
He  does  in  the  incarnation  of  His  eternally  begotten  Son  in 
the  Son  of  Man.  Now,  whatever  God  does  to  recover  to  Him- 
self lost  man  and  the  ruined  Cosmos,  must  be  done  in  con- 
formity to  His  Eternal  Law. 

45.  In  Part  IV  it  will  be  demonstrated  that  the  incarnation 
of  the  Son  of  God  in  ]Man,  the  life  and  earthly  ministry  of 
Jesus  Christ,  His  death  on  the  Cross,  His  resurrection  from 
the  dead.  His  post-resurrection  ministry,  His  ascension  up 
into  heaven,  His  heavenly  ministry  to  the  church,  the  regen- 
eration of  believers,  the  institution  of  the  church,  the  sancti- 
fication  of  the  regenerate,  the  pneumatical  transformation  of 
the  sanctified  church,  the  complete  reclamation  and  perfect 
transformation  of  Nature  (the  Palingenesis) — these  pro- 
cessions, each  and  all,  are  progressively  achieved  without  the 


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violation  of  any  law  of  any  Realm  of  Being  or  of  Existence, 
without  a  single  miracle  (in  the  proper  sense  of  the  word), 
but  in  perfect  conformity  to  law,  and  having  always  in  view 
the  complete  subjection  of  lawless  Man  and  corrupt  Nature 
under  the  reign  of  divinely  benignant  law. 


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PART  I. 

HUMAN  PSYCHOLOGY. 

THE  PRIMORDIAL  PSYCHOSIS. 
THE  DUAL  INTUITION. 

1.  This  Psychosis  has  its  image  or  symbol  in  the  electrical 
cosmicosis.  Generate  positive  electricity  at  one  end  of  an 
iron  rod  and  negative  electricity  is  synchronously  super- 
induced at  the  other.  Bring  the  two  ends  or  poles  together, 
complete  the  circuit, — and  energy  in  the  form  of  heat,  light  or 
mechanical  power  is  the  product.  There  are  three  steps  in 
the  process :  The  Thesis,  the  Analysis,  the  Synthesis. 

2.  The  Formal  Process : 

( 1 )  The  Thesis :  Latent  electricity  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  posited  estate  is  negated;  the  gen- 
eration of  positive  and  the  superinduction  of  negative  elec- 
tricity at  opposite  poles  follows.      This  the  analysis. 

(2)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  negated;  the  circuit  is 
completed  in  the  unition  of  the  two  opposite  electricities,  and 
their  product  is  heat,  light,  or  force. 

3.  The  infant  is  born  conscious.  This  its  primal  estate 
is  achieved  in  its  gestational  procession ;  and  with  this  equip- 
ment it  begins  its  upward  progress.  The  first  postnatal 
step  in  this  advance  is  taken  in  the  Primordial  Psychosis. 

4.  The  Formal  Process  : 

(1)  The  Thesis:  The  infant  in  its  primal  or  conscious 
estate  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  posited  estate  is  negated;  the 
higher  potential  psychical  activity  is  set  free  by  the  gentle 
impact  of  the  sunlight  upon  the  eyelids  of  the  unseeing 
infant;  the  eyelids  are  raised,  the  consciousness  is  projected 
outward  and  simultaneously  introjected  inward;  objective  or 
positive  psychical  activity  is  generated;  and  subjective  or 
negative    psychical    activity    is    superinduced.      The    infant 


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intuits  as  the  product  of  the  objective  activity  space  as  out- 
sidcness,  and  simultaneously  intuits  the  psychical  self  as 
insidcness.  The  intuition  of  space  is  not  conditioned  on  sense- 
perception  ;  it  foreruns  and  never  follows  sense-perception  as 
its  by-product. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  negated;  the  circuit  is 
completed ;  the  infant  withdraws  its  consciousness  from  the 
polar  processes,  bringing  their  ideated  products  together  and 
uniting  them  (subjective  and  objective)  as  soul  with  body. 
The  co-intuitions  of  space  and  of  self  are  united  without 
fusion  as  soul  with  body,  as  subjective  with  objective,  as 
insidedness  with  outsidedness ;  and  the  emphasis  in  conscious- 
ness is  on  the  subjective  co-product.  Thus  the  primordial 
self-consciousness  is  achieved.  The  self  is  intuited  as  inside- 
edness  (subjectivity)  as  related  to  the  intuition  of  space 
as  outsidedness  (objectivity).  The  intuited  outsidedness 
becomes  the  background  of  the  intuition  of  self  which  is  thus 
brought  into  bold  relief.  The  infant  has  achieved  its  Pri- 
mordial self-consciousness.  It  is  conscious  of  its  subjec- 
tivity, as  contradistinguished  from  spacial  outsidedness.  Or 
the  Psyche  intuits  space  as  its  own  outsidedness  and  intuits 
itself  as  space's  insideness. 

5.  The  intuition  of  self  as  insideness  implies  or  implicates 
a  yet  unrealized  or  potential  continent  of  the  self.  The 
potential  continent  is  to  be  gradually  realized  in  conscious- 
ness, through  the  advancing  orders  of  the  Psychoses,  much 
like  the  gradual  emergence  of  a  geographical  continent  from 
the  bosom  of  the  ocean,  except  that  the  subdivisions  emerge 
out  of  the  ocean  of  the  subconscious  in  well  defined  order  and 
form — the  outline  subdivision  first,  and  then,  in  order,  the 
next  in  inner  contiguity,  and  so  on  toward  the  center  of  the 
circle  (sphere)  of  consciousness.  The  subdivisions  will 
assume  the  form  of  zones  or  belts — the  last  achieved  or 
inmost  subdivision  will  be  a  circle  with  the  self  as  center. 

6.  The  Intuition  of  space  as  mere  outsideness  implicates 
yet  unrealized  or  potential  contents ;  or  in  other  words,  the 


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intuition  of  space  as  outsideness  implies  its  capacity  to 
embrace  or  to  contain.  So  that  space  gradually  acquires  in 
the  advancing  orders  of  the  Psychosis  its  full  complement  of 
contents. 

7.  Again,  the  Psyche,  in  its  Primordial  estate,  is  pure 
unrealized  subjectivity;  and  space,  as  mere  outsidedness,  is 
pure  though  unrealized  objectivity;  and  they  are  co-ordinate 
and  cognate.  The  inner  and  outer  continents,  when  com- 
pletely upheaved,  are  complements  the  one  of  the  other.  It 
follows  that  the  Psyche  is  to  realize,  in  consciousness,  his 
objective  self  in  space  as  he  fills  it  with  its  corresponding  com- 
plements. This,  the  first  promise  and  prophecy  of  man's 
final  dominion  over  the  works  of  God's  hand. 

8.  The  infant  Psyche  ma}^  achieve  its  Primordial  self- 
consciousness  through  any  or  all  of  the  five  organs  of  sense, 
fundamentally  through  the  sense  of  touch. 

9.  An  Intuition  is  an  immediate  or  an  a  priori  Cognition; 
and  therefore  it  can  have  no  real  or  proper  Polar  (Terminal) 
processes.  In  all  higher  orders  of  the  Psychosis,  the  cogni- 
tions are  products  mediated  by  the  two  end-processes  to  be 
distinguished  as  Polar  processes  and  comprehended  within  the 
Pontal  Psychosis,  which  initiates  or  originates  and  sustains 
them ;  and,  finally,  completes  itself  in  the  union  of  the  Polar 
products.  It  is  the  function  therefore  of  the  Pontal  Psycho- 
sis, as  it  comprehends  the  higher  orders  of  the  Polar  Psycho- 
ses, to  give  rise  to  ascending  orders  of  self-consciousness. 
The  accompanying  diagram  will  indicate  the  relation  of  the 
Pontal  Psychosis  to  the  comprehended  Polar  Psychoses. 


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THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 


Explanation :  Pontal  Psychosic  Circle=2  half-circles,  ABC 
and  AB'C ;  A=point  of  origin ;  AC=Diameter  of  Pontal 
circle  and  tangent  of  inner  circles ;  C=point  where  the  cir- 
cuit is  completed;  BO=^Diameter  of  objective  Polar  Psycho- 
sis; B'0=Diameter  of  subjective  Polar  Psychosis;  B=Point 
of  origin  and  completion  of  objective  process;  B''=Point  of 
origin  and  completion  of  subjective  process;  Arrow  heads= 
directions  of  processional  movements.  The  Polar  Psychoses 
probably  have  Somaticosic  bases  in  the  hemispheres  of  the 
brain — the  one  in  the  right,  the  other  in  the  left  hemisphere. 

11.  The  Polar  Psychoses  are  conditioned  on  the  Analytical 
process  of  the  Pontal  Psychosis ;  that  is,  they  are  generated 
and  sustained  by  the  comprehending  Pontal  Psychosis  in  its 
Analytical  step. 

12.  The  Polar  Psychosic  products  are  united  or  conju- 
gated in  the  Synthetic  process  of  the  comprehending  Pontal 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.  6 

Psychosis ;  and  therein  ground  the  given  order  of  self-con- 
sciousness. The  subjective  product  supplies  the  inner  condi- 
tion; and  the  objective  product  the  outer  or  negative  condi- 
tion of  self-consciousness. 

13.  The  Primordial  Psychosis  is  incomplete — a  Pontal 
Process  plus  an  a  priori,  or  processless  cognition,  or  Intui- 
tion. It  yields  and  unites  two  empty  intuitions — intuitions  of 
mere  subjectivity  and  objectivity,  each  innocent  of  content. 

14.  In  the  Advancing  Ranks  of  the  Psychosis,  these  cognate 
intuitions  acquire  ever  higher  and  more  definite  content ;  and 
thus  condition  correspondingly  higher  orders  of  self-con- 
sciousness. 

THE  GENERAL  PSYCHOSIS. 

1.  There  are  six  Ranks  or  Degrees  of  Psychosis,  to  be 
known  respectively  as  the  First,  the  Second,  the  Third,  the 
Fourth,  the  Fifth,  and  the  Sixth  Procession. 

2.  Each  Psychosic  Procession  comprises  at  least  two  Pro- 
gressions ;  the  one  subjective,  the  other  objective. 

The  First  Psychosic  Procession. 

The  Subjective  Progression.  The  Objective  Progression. 

Processes:  The  Orders.  Processes: 

Self-Intuition.  1.  The  Promordial  Psychosis.  Intuition. 

Self  Sense-perception.  2.  The  Definitival   Psychosis.  Sense-perception. 

Self-Perception.  3.  The  Analytical  Psychosis.  Perception. 

Self-Conception.  4.  The  Abstractival  Psychosis.  Conception. 

Self-Intraception.  5.  The  Differential  Psychosis.  Intraception. 

Self-Reciproceptioii.  6.  The  Diathetical   Psychosis.  Reciproception. 

Self-Geneception.  7.  The  .\ntithetical  Psychosis.  Geneception. 

Note:  To  these  are  to  be  added  the  Visional  Psychosis,  the 
Ethical  Psychosis  and  the  Reproductival  Psychosis,  which 
are  reflected  in  a  later  Part  (The  Regenerate  Human 
Psychosis). 


6  THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

THE  DEFIXITIVAL  PSYCHOSIS. 

OBJECTIVE  PSYCHOSIS. 

SEXSE-PERCEPTIOX. 

1.  The  Objective  Psychosis,  as  the  qualifying  term  indi- 
cates, operates  in  the  outer  Cosmos. 

2.  This  Psychosis,  as  does  every  objective  Psychosis  of 
whatever  order,  (1)  takes  as  its  Thesis  the  outer  product 
achieved  in  the  preceding  Psychosis,  which  in  this  instance  is 
Space  intuited  as  mere  outsidedness,  empty  objectivity;  (2) 
it  Negates  this;  (3)  it  then  Negates  the  Negation. 

3.  The  Formal  Process : 

(1)  The  Thesis;  Space  Intuited  as  outsidedness,  empty 
objectivity,  is  posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis;  Space  is  Negated;  an  object  appears  in 
the  field  of  vision ;  the  psychical  activity  is  concentered 
thereon;  this  shuts  out  or  separates  space  from  the  object; 
space  is  thereby  ideally  annulled  or  Negated. 

(3)  The  Synthesis;  this  Negation  or  Annulment  of  Space 
is  Negated.  In  the  Analysis  space  was  fenced  off  from  the 
object ;  now,  the  Ps^'chical  activity  is  rediffused  over  the  field 
of  vision ;  the  fence  is  removed  and  space  flows  in  embracing 
and  penetrating  the  object.  Space  has  received  a  content; 
the  circuit  is  completed :  The  obj  ect  sense-perceived. 

4.  The  Intuition  of  space  as  outsidedness  implicated  its 
potential  insidedness,  that  is,  there  was  a  lower  or  implicit 
intuition  of  space  as  the  capacity  to  hold  or  to  contain.  In 
sense-perception  the  implicated  element  is  explicated;  space 
first  shut  off  from  the  object  was  then  made  to  embrace  and 
penetrate  the  object.  The  object  was  sense-perceived  as  a 
content  of  space. 

5.  Every  higher  order  of  the  objective  Psychosis  (and  its 
product)  is  implicated  or  embr^onically  existent  in  the  lower 
order;  the  orders  are  thereby  linked  together  in  a  chain,  or 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.  7 

progression;    true    also    of    the    subjective    processes    and 
products. 

6.  The  progress  of  the  Psyche  from  a  lower  to  a  higher 
order  of  Psychosis  is  characterized  by  the  explication  of  the 
least  implicit  element  respectively  in  the  process  and  in  the 
product  of  the  lower  order.  This  affords  a  dual  test  of  the 
sequence  of  the  orders.  And  progress  is  evinced  in  a  corre- 
sponding deepening  of  Cognition  and  of  Self-Cognition,  thus 
conditioning  an  orderly  evolution  of  Self-Consciousness. 
Now,  since  Self-Consciousness  is  the  final  product  of  every 
Psychosis  of  whatever  order;  it  may  be  inferred  that  the 
Polar  Processes  have  as  their  end  this  final  pontal  product. 

THE  SUBJECTIVE  PSYCHOSIS. 
SELF  SENSE-PERCEPTION. 

1.   The  Formal  Process : 

(1)  The  Thesis:  The  Intuition  of  self  as  Insidedness,  or 
empty  subjectivity  with  its  implicated  potential  continent  of 
the  conscious  self. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Posited  Estate  is  Negated;  the 
given  organ  of  sense  or  the  bod}^  as  the  organ  of  touch  func- 
tions in  the  sense-perception  of  the  outer  object;  the  Psyche 
becomes  conscious  of  the  body  as  it  so  functions  and  therein 
separates  or  utters  it  in  idea  from  the  self.    This  the  Analysis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated;  the  body 
ceases  to  function  as  the  organ  of  touch  because  of  the  with- 
drawal of  the  psychic  activity,  and  ideated  is  carried  back  in 
the  inflowing  stream  of  consciousness ;  its  separation  is  over- 
come, its  utterance  recovered.  The  Psyche  has  sense-per- 
ceived or  identified  its  physical  organization  with  self.  And 
a  provisional  continent  is  achieved. 


8  THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

THE  COMPREHENDING  PONTAL  PSYCHOSIS. 
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS   OF  THE   SECOND   ORDER. 

1.  The  Pontal  Psychosis  of  each  and  every  order  has  but 
one  and  the  same  function  to  discharge,  namely :  ( 1 )  It  posits 
the  existent  or  achieved  Psychical  estate;  (2)  it  generates 
positive  and  negative  Psychical  activity,  which  in  all  orders 
above  the  Primordial  initiates  and  sustains  the  objective  and 
subjective  (Polar)  Psychoses;  and  (3)  it  unites  in  conscious- 
ness the  Terminal  products.  The  reflection  then  of  more 
than  one  of  the  Pontal  Psychoses  is  not  necessary  and  may 
be  safeh^  omitted  by  the  reader  when  the  one  has  been  mas- 
tered. 

2.  The  Formal  Process : 

(1)  The  Thesis:  The  Psychical  Estate  Achieved  in  the 
Primordial  Psychosis  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Posited  Estate  is  Negated;  Posi- 
tive and  Negative  Psychical  action  is  generated;  these  orig- 
inate and  sustain  the  Polar  Psychoses  above  reflected. 

(3)  The  Synthesis  :  The  Anal^^sis  is  Negated ;  the  products 
of  the  Polar  Psychoses  are  ideally  united.  The  Psyche  self- 
sense-perceived,  as  a  functioning  body  in  space,  becomes  con- 
scious of  himself  as  other  than  the  outer  object  sense-per- 
ceived (in  space).  This  involves  a  physical  self-orientation 
with  respect  to  the  sense-perceived  object.  The  Psyche  has 
achieved  its  Second  Order  of  self-consciousness. 

THE  ANALYTICAL  PSYCHOSIS. 

THE  OBJECTIVE  PSYCHOSIS. 

PERCEPTION. 

1.  The  Formal  Process : 

( 1 )  The  Thesis  :  The  Product  of  the  last  objective  psycho- 
sis (the  sense-perceived  object)  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Posited  product  is  Negated;  the 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.  9 

sense-perceived  object  is  ideally  broken  up  into  its  parts, 
qualities,  or  properties. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Negation  is  Negated;  the  parts, 
qualities,  or  properties  are  united  in  terms  of  the  original 
unity  of  the  object.  This  the  Synthesis,  and  the  entire  proc- 
ess a  Perception. 

2.  The  Process  Illustrated: 

(1)  The  Thesis:  A  ray  of  white  light  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Ray  of  White  Light  is  passed 
through  a  prism;  and,  thereby,  broken  up  into  its  prismatic 
colors,  or  component  rays. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  prismatic  (color)  Rays  are 
passed  back  through  the  prism ;  and  are  thereby  united  in 
the  reproduced  ray  of  white  light. 

3.  To  the  mind,  the  synthesized  ray  of  white  light  is  not 
identical  with  the  original  ray ;  it  is  now  a  composite  ray, 
known  in  terms  of  its  component  elements ;  that  is,  it  has  been 
perceived. 

4.  In  the  above  illustration,  the  cognition  is  assisted  by  the 
actual  physical  separation  or  division  of  the  object  into  its 
component  parts  and  their  actual  synthesis  (union)  in  the 
restored  object.  In  ordinary  perception,  the  Analytical  and 
Synthetical  steps  are  not  actual,  but  ideal ;  and  their  product 
an  idea. 

5.  There  may  be  many  perceptions  of  a  given  object.  It 
may  be  perceived :  ( 1 )  In  terms  of  its  physical  parts,  or 
members;  (2)  in  terms  of  a  given  quality;  (3)  in  terms  of  a 
characteristic  property;  (4)  and,  finally,  in  terms  of  a 
prominent  functional  principle.  All  achieved  perceptions  of 
the  object  are,  or  may  be,  united  in  a,  more  or  less,  complete 
Perception. 

6.  The  Percept  of  an  object  is  a  picture  or  image  of  the 
object  stored  in  the  mind,  and  readily  reproducible;  and  when 
present  in  consciousness,  it  is  always  tied  to  its  object  as  a 
picture  to  its  original.  Here  we  have  an  implicit  abstraction 
of  the  qualities,  properties,  and  elements  of  an  object,  when 


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the  process  is  regarded  from  its  liigher  or  psychical  side ;  and 
a  defecation  of  the  lower,  or  material  elements,  when  it  is 
looked  at  from  its  material  side. 

7.  Abstraction,  implicit  here,  is  to  become  explicit  in  the 
next  higher  Psychosis. 

8.  Perception  is  conditioned  on  Sensation.  Objective 
Perception  is  the  interpretation,  or  reference,  of  one  or 
more  sensations  to  an  outer  object  as  their  origin;  sub- 
jective (self)  Perception  is  the  interpretation,  or  reference, 
of  the  same  (one  or  more)  sensations  to  an  inner  object(s), 
sense  organ  or  organs,  as  their  origin.  The  sensation(s)  is 
Negated,  in  each  case;  and  the  Negation  Negated;  and 
thereby  the  sensation(s)  is  preserved  in  idea. 

THE  SUBJECTIVE  PSYCHOSIS. 
SELF-PERCEPTION. 

1.   The  Formal  Process  : 

(1)  The  Thesis :  The  sense-perception  of  self,  as  a  living  or 
sentient  body  (Soma)  in  space,  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Posited  Sense-Perception  of  Self 
is  Negated;  the  Psyche  becomes  conscious  of  an  upheaving, 
outgoing  energy  in  the  perception  of  the  outer  object.  That 
is,  the  Perceiving  Psyche  is  conscious  of  the  projection,  or 
utterance  of  energy  in  the  perceptual  process.  This  the 
Analysis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated;  the  pro- 
jected consciousness  is  withdrawn;  the  uttered  energy  is 
recovered;  the  subjective  Psychosis  is  complete;  and  the  con- 
tinent of  the  self  has  been  inwardly  extended  to  embrace  (in 
consciousness)  the  intellectual  faculty  of  the  mind.  The 
Psyche  has  perceived  Self  as  a  knower  in  a  sentient  body. 


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THE  PONTAL  PSYCHOSIS. 
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS  OF  THE  THIRD  ORDER. 

(1)  The  Thesis:  The  Psychical  Estate  Achieved  in  the 
Definitival  Psychosis  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Posited  Estate  is  Negated;  Posi- 
tive and  Negative  Psychical  energy  is  generated ;  the  one, 
originates  and  sustains  the  objective  Polar  Psychosis — the 
other,  the  subjective  Psychosis.     This  the  Analysis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated;  the  prod- 
ucts of  the  co-ordinate  Polar  Psychoses  are  united;  and  in 
their  union  without  fusion,  they  ground  the  Psyche's  Third 
Order  of  self-consciousness.  The  Psyche  is  conscious  of  self 
as  the  possessor  of  a  cognitive  mind,  housed  in  a  sentient  body 
other  than  the  outer  object  perceived. 

THE    FUNCTIONS    OF    THE    PONTAL    PSYCHOSIS 
MORE  DEFINITELY  SET  FORTH. 

1.  It  is  the  characteristic  of  the  Pontal  Psychosis,  that  it 
responds  to  those  stimuli  alone  that  have  for  their  end  the  well 
being  of  the  man.  The  Pontal  response  is  Positive,  or  Nega- 
tive, or  both  Positive  and  Negative.  The  Positive  incites  man 
to  self-furthering  activity ;  the  Negative  to  self-preserving 
activity.  The  Positive  and  Negative  co-operating,  secure 
at  once  man's  self-furtherance  and  self-preservation. 

2.  The  Pontal  Psychosis  has  three  spheres  of  activity: 
(1)  The  Physical  (animal)  sphere;  (2)  the  Psychic  sphere, 
and  (3)  the  Moral  sphere.  In  the  Physical  sphere,  this 
Psychosis  (which  is  properly  a  Pontal  Somaticosis)  has  to  do 
alone  with  the  achievement  of  man's  physical  growth  and 
development ;  in  the  Psychic  sphere,  with  his  psychical  growth 
and  development,  and  in  the  Moral  sphere,  with  his  Moral 
growth  and  development.  The  transition,  from  a  lower  to 
a  higher  sphere,  is  accomplished  by  the  negation  of  the 
lower. 


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3.  To  achieve  these  ends,  the  Pontal  Psychosis  originates, 
or  sets  free,  the  co-ordinate  Polar  Psychoses. 

4.  Each  of  the  Polar  Psychoses  is  either  a  potential  or  an 
actual  Trinal  Psychosis ;  that  is,  each  is  either  an  implicit  or 
explicit  Psychosis  of  the  Intellect,  a  Psychosis  of  the  Feeling, 
and  a  Psychosis  of  the  Will.  In  the  First  and  Second  Orders 
of  the  Psychosis,  the  Intellect,  the  Feeling  and  the  Will  indis- 
tinguishably  blend ;  in  the  Third  Order,  the  Intellect  emerges, 
or  is  upheaved,  into  consciousness ;  in  the  fourth,  fifth  and 
sixth  orders.  Feeling;  and  in  the  seventh  order,  the  poten- 
tially Moral  Will. 

5.  The  Psyche,  by  successive  Differentiations  followed  by 
co-ordinate  Integrations,  finally  achieves  his  highest  indi- 
vidual selfhood  in  the  conscious  possession  of  Intellect,  Feel- 
ing and  Will.  In  this  Estate,  man  becomes  conscious  of 
himself  as  a  free  moral  Person  (imaging  the  Godhead). 

6.  The  Intellect,  the  Feeling,  and  the  Will  has  each  its  own 
Psychosis,  which  it  is  possible  in  a  general  way  to  reflect 
separately.  Each  conforms,  in  its  every  process,  to  the  gen- 
eral Psychosic  law.  But  it  has  not  been  thought  necessary 
to  attempt  in  this  outline  treatise  their  independent  reflection. 
Moreover,  the  mode  and  sphere  of  activity  of  each  is  exempli- 
fied in  the  respective  functions  of  the  father,  the  wife-mother 
and  the  son,  in  the  yet  to  be  reflected  Reproductival  Psy- 
chosis. 

THE  ABSTRACTIVAL  PSYCHOSIS. 
CONCEPTION. 

1.  A  percept  is  the  mental  image  or  picture  of  an  indi- 
vidual object.  A  concept  is  the  generalization  of  two  or  more 
percepts,  defecated  of  all  points  or  features  of  non-resem- 
blance. It  is  therefore  the  mental  representative  of  a  class  of 
percepts  in  terms  of  one  or  more  or  all  their  common  features. 
But  as  the  percept  is  always  linked  to  the  object  it  pictures, 
the  concept  may  be  defined,  for  all  practical  purposes,  as  the 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.         13 

mental  representative  of  a  class  of  objects.  Perceived  objects 
have  one  or  more  qualities  or  properties  in  common;  a  class 
then  may  be  constituted  in  terms  of  one  or  more  or  all  these 
common  characteristics ;  the  fewer  the  common  characteris- 
tics among  a  given  set  of  objects,  the  larger  the  possible 
class  of  objects,  and  the  simpler  the  answering  concept;  the 
more  the  points  of  resemblance  among  them,  the  smaller  the 
possible  class,  and  the  more  complex  the  representative 
Concept. 

2.  The  General  Process:  Two  or  more  percepts  (or  per- 
ceived objects)  are  given;  the  most  striking  common  charac- 
teristic presented  in  the  given  percepts,  or  embodied  in  the 
objects  physically  grouped,  is  Abstracted  from  the  Percepts, 
or  the  Objects ;  and  the  point  of  resemblance,  next  in  saliency, 
is  in  like  manner  Abstracted ;  and  so,  the  Abstraction  may  be 
continued  to  the  exhaustion  of  the  points  of  resemblance. 
Finally,  the  Abstracted  Common  features  are  gathered  up  in 
order  in  a  complex  concept,  answering  to  the  presented  per- 
cepts, and  through  them  to  the  objects.  This,  the  total 
process.  But  new  objects  of  like  characteristics  may  be 
presented  and  subsumed  one  by  one  under  the  achieved  con- 
cept ;  and  this  is,  in  its  proper  sense.  Classification. 

3.  Identity  and  equality  are  immediately  cognized;  they 
are  cognized  without  a  process,  or  intuited. 

4.  The  Formal  Process : 

(1)  The  Thesis:  Two  or  more  Percepts  (or  Perceived 
objects)  are  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Posited  Percepts  (or  Perceived 
objects)  are  Negated;  that  is,  the  common  characteristics  (as 
intuited)  are  one  by  one,  in  the  order  of  their  saliency, 
abstracted  from  the  Posited  Percepts  (or  Perceived  objects), 
the  points  of  non-resemblance  being  ignored.  This,  the 
Analysis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated;  and  in  this 
way, — the  abstracted  characteristics  gathered  together,  in 
orderly  arrangement,  are  referred  back  and  linked   to   the 


14        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

Posited  Percepts,  or  immediately  to  the  Perceived  objects. 
The  circuit  of  the  Psychosis  is  completed  and  the  conception 
is  achieved. 

5.  The  concept  is  lodged  in  a  symbol  or  word,  whose  func- 
tion is  analogous  to  that  of  the  retinal  image.  The  primal 
function  of  the  retinal  image  is  to  mediate  Perception.  So 
through  the  mediation  of  the  symbol  or  word  Conception, 
especially  in  its  secondary  phase  distinguished  as  classifica- 
tion, is  greatly  facilitated.  It  is  probable  that  in  the  repre- 
sentation of  objects,  the  original  retinal  image  is  faintly 
reproduced.  If  so,  it  mediates  representation ;  and,  thereby, 
conditions  memory  in  this  sphere.  So  the  word,  in  the  con- 
ceptual sphere,  mediates  the  easy  achievement  and  recovery 
of  concepts ;  and  thus,  conditions  the  rational  memory. 
Therefore,  abstract  thinking  is  possible  only  in  words. 

6.  In  the  preceding  orders  of  the  Psychosis,  the  processes 
have  been  induced  or  set  free  by  external  stimuli.  To  these 
outer  excitations  the  Psyche  has  impulsiveW,  spontaneously, 
or  instinctively  responded.  There  has,  therefore,  been  no  con- 
scious origination  or  suspension  of  the  Psychoses,  on  the  part 
of  the  Psyche.  But  in  this,  the  abstractival  Psychosis,  sus- 
tained and  prolonged,  attention  is  necessary  to  the  achieve- 
ment of  an  original  concept.  This  prerequisite  attention 
is  secured  through  the  operation  of  interest,  now  present  and 
agent  above  the  threshold  of  consciousness.  In  the  subjective 
Analytical  Psychosis,  the  cognitive  mind  (the  intellectual  fac- 
ulty) emerged  out  of  the  ocean  of  the  subconscious ;  now,  we 
are  to  reflect  the  first  emergence  of  the  Feeling  mind  out  of  the 
unlighted  and  uncharted  Sea  of  the  sub-conscious,  and  the 
inward  extension  of  the  continent  of  the  Psyche's  self. 


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THE  SUBJECTIVE  PSYCHOSIS. 
SELF-CONCEPTION. 

1.  The  Formal  Process : 

(1)  The  Thesis:  The  Percept  of  Self  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Posited  Percept  is  Negated;  in 
the  procuring  of  continuous  attention  in  the  conceptual  proc- 
ess, the  Psyche  becomes  conscious  of  the  presence  and  agency 
of  interest;  the  mental  element,  Feeling  (or  the  Motor  Will) 
is  upheaved  into  consciousness  and  projected  forth  in  co-oper- 
ation with  the  cognitive  factor.     This  the  Analysis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated.  The  Con- 
ceptual process  finished,  the  feeling  factor  is  withdrawn — the 
uttered  "feeling"  is  recovered,  and  the  recovered  element  of 
the  mind  is  reunited  without  fusion  with  the  cognitive  factor 
— and  the  continent  of  Psyche  is  inwardly  extended  to 
embrace  (in  consciousness)  that  side  of  the  mind  that  func- 
tions as  Feeling.  The  Psyche  has  conceived  itself  as  the 
energizing  factor.  Now,  the  Psyche  knows  itself  as  mind 
(embracing  the  Cognitive  and  Feeling  Faculties),  housed  in  a 
sentient  body. 

THE  PONTAL  PSYCHOSIS. 
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS  OF  THE  FOURTH  ORDER. 

1.  The  Formal  Process: 

(1)  The  Thesis :  The  Psychical  estate  achieved  in  the  Ana- 
lytical Psychosis  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis :  The  Posited  estate  is  Negated ;  Positive 
and  Negative  Psychical  energy  is  generated;  the  positive 
energy  originates  and  sustains  the  objective  Polar  Psychosis, 
and  the  negative  originates  and  sustains  the  co-ordinate  sub- 
jective Psychosis.     This,  the  Analysis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated;  the  co-ordi- 
nate products  of  the  Polar  Psychoses   are  united  without 

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16        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

fusion ;  and  thus,  ground  the  Ps^'che's  Fourth  Estate  of  Self- 
consciousness.  He  is  conscious  of  himself  as  an  energetically 
emotional  being. 

THE  DIFFERENTIAL  PSYCHOSIS. 

THE  OBJECTIVE  PSYCHOSIS. 

INTRACEPTIOX. 

1.  Conception  was  found  to  be  grounded  on  the  Intuition 
of  identit}'  or  equality ;  now,  the  intuition  of  identity  or  equal- 
ity involves  the  implicit  consciousness  of  difference,  which 
explicated  grounds  the  First  Order  of  Comparison,  or  Intra- 
ception. 

2.  There  are  three  Orders  of  Comparison,  namely:  Intra- 
ception,  Reciproception  and  Geneception. 

3.  It  is,  then,  the  function  of  this,  the  Differential  Psycho- 
sis, to  reflect  the  First  Order  of  Comparison. 

4.  The  Formal  Process : 

(1)  The  Thesis:  Two  objects  comprehended  by  a  given 
concept  are  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  class  unity  is  Negated;  the  two 
objects  are  Differentiated  with  respect  to  a  common  quality 
or  property,  inhering  in  them  in  differing  degrees,  or 
amounts.      This  the  Analysis,  or  Differentiation. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated;  the  objects 
are  united  in  terms  of  a  Scale  of  Comparison — the  one  is 
reduced  to, measured  by, or  expressed  in  terms  of  the  other;  or 
the  one  is  cognized  as  possessing  more  of  the  common  quality 
or  property  than  the  other.  The  circuit  of  the  Ps3^chosis  is 
completed,  and  the  two  objects  are  Intraceived.  The  Intra- 
ception  may  be  made  to  embrace  a  third  object  by  measuring 
it  immediately,  in  terms  of  the  second,  and  thereby  mediately, 
in  terms  of  the  first  object.  Thus  arises  the  Ascending  scale 
of  Comparison ;  as  for  example — strong,  stronger,  strongest. 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.         17 

THE  SUBJECTIVE  PSYCHOSIS. 
SELF-INTRACEPTION. 

The  Formal  Process: 

(1)  The  Thesis:  The  Subjective  Psychical  estate  last 
achieved  is  Posited,  or  two  desirable  objects  are  placed  before 
the  Psyche. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  two  objects  intraceived  in  the 
co-ordinate  objective  Psychosis,  make  an  unequal  appeal  to 
the  Psyche — two  desires  of  unequal  intensity  are  evoked. 
This,  the  Anal3fsis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated;  the  one 
desire  is  measured  in  terms  of  the  other ;  the  one  is  preferred 
over  the  other,  and  the  latter  thereby  rejected.  The  rejected 
desire  is  pronounced  strong,  the  other  stronger.  A  third 
object  presented  may  arouse  a  desire  which,  measured  in 
terms  of  the  stronger,  may  be  pronounced  strongest.  The 
Ascending  Scale  of  Comparison  is  complete.  The  Psyche 
has  intraceived  self;  and  the  Preferential  Feeling  has  been 
upheaved  into  Consciousness. 

THE  PONTAL  PSYCHOSIS. 
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS  OF  THE  FIFTH  ORDER. 

The  Formal  Process: 

( 1 )  The  Thesis :  The  Psychical  estate  achieved  in  the  last 
order  of  the  Psychosis  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Posited  estate  is  Negated.  Posi- 
tive and  Negative  Psychical  activity  is  generated ;  the  one 
originates  and  sustains  the  objective  Polar  Psychosis,  the 
other  the  co-ordinate  Subjective  Psychosis.  This,  the 
Analysis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis :  The  Analysis  is  Negated ;  the  co-ordi- 
nate Polar  products  are  united  without  fusion ;  and  thus, 
ground  the  Fifth  Order  of  the  Psyche's  Self-Consciousness. 
The  Psyche  has  achieved  the  Consciousness  of  himself  as 
an  elector  between  the  objects  of  Desire. 


18        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

THE  DIATHETICAL  PSYCHOSIS. 

THE  OBJECTIVE  PSYCHOSIS. 

RECIPROCEPTION. 

1.  In  the  Objective  Differential  Psychosis,  the  Ascending 
Scale  of  Comparison  was  evolved;  in  this  Psychosis  the 
Descending  Scale  is  to  be  developed  in  a  manner  that  shall 
exhibit  the  corresponding  terms  of  the  two  Scales  in  Pairs  of 
Reciprocals. 

2.  The  Problem  formally  stated:  Given  the  Ascending 
Scale,  Strong,  Stronger,  Strongest  (for  example),  to  show 
how  the  Pairs  of  Reciprocals,  strong-weak,  stronger-weaker, 
strongest-weakest  are  derived. 

3.  The  Formal  Process : 

(1)  The  Thesis:  The  Ascending  Scale  (the  Product  of 
Intraception)  with  its  terminal  Implicates,  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Posited  Product  is  Negated;  the 
implicit  terms  are  explicated ;  from  strong  its  implicit  element 
weak  is  separated,  from  stronger,  weaker  and  from  strongest, 
weakest.     This  the  Analysis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated;  the  corre- 
sponding terms  of  the  two  scales  are  united  in  Pairs ;  as 
strong-weak,  stronger-weaker,  strongest-weakest.  The  Re- 
ciproceptual  Process  is  complete.  "Weak"  reinforces  or 
emphasizes  "strong,"  "weaker,"  "stronger,"  and  "weakest," 
"strongest." 

4.  The  above  process  involves  an  implicit  Proportion, 
which  may  be  formally  stated  thus ;  as  stronger  is  to  strong, 
so  strong  is  to  the  first  term  of  the  Descending  scale  (Weak). 
And  so  on  to  find  the  second  and  third  terms. 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.         19 

THE  SUBJECTIVE  PSYCHOSIS. 
SELF-RECIPROCEPTION. 

1.  It  must  be  borne  in  mind  that  the  Psyche  is  achieving  its 
first  progress  through  the  advancing  orders  of  the  Psychosis, 
and  that  the  objects  it  deals  with  are  real  and  the  process 
concrete.  The  objects  derived  attract  the  Psyche;  there  is  a 
mutual  attraction  between  the  Psyche  and  the  coveted  objects. 
Hence  arise  an  objective  and  a  subjective  process.  The 
Psyche,  as  subjective,  instinctly  seeks  its  truest  objective; 
and  the  objects,  as  objective,  yield  themselves  by  the  law  of 
the  Negative  to  the  Psyche.  The  Psyche  pronounces  the 
object  strong  or  weak  according  to  the  strength  of  its 
attraction.  So  of  the  ascription  of  all  qualities  and  proper- 
ties to  objects.  It  is  only  when  the  objects  are  separated  in 
idea  from  the  cognizing  Psyche,  and  abstractly  considered, 
that  qualities  and  properties  are  thought  of  as  independently 
inherent  in  objects. 

2.  The  First  Psychosic  Procession  of  the  normal  or  unfallen 
man  is  a  purely  egoistic  Procession,  wherein  the  Psyche 
unconscious  of  altruistic  obligation  seeks  instinctively  to 
achieve  its  highest  estate.  The  Divine  Spirit  descends  upon 
the  developing  Psyche,  as  the  sunlight  upon  the  growing 
plant,  to  guide  and  to  energize  the  Psychic  Child,  who  yields 
an  instinctive,  undeliberated,  obedience.  The  Psyche's  choice 
is  therefore  infallibly  righteous.  He  is  impeccable  in  the 
First  Psychosic  Procession;  for  this  procession  is  his  prepa- 
ration for  entrance  into,  and  possible  passage  through,  the 
Ethical  Psychosis,  which  is  shortly  to  confront  him. 

3.  The  Formal  Process : 

(1)  The  Thesis:  The  Product  of  Self-Intraception  is 
Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis :  The  Posited  Product  is  Negated. 
Now  in  the  objective  Process,  *'weak"  was  evolved  out  of 

strong,"  or  a  second  less  attractive  object  was  measured  by. 


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20        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

reduced  to,  or  expressed  in  terms  of  the  object  pronounced 
strong  in  attraction ;  as  thus  measured,  it  was  cognized  as 
"weak."  Again,  "strong"  and  "weak"  as  the  characteristic 
of  two  objects  implies  a  median  object  which  is  neither 
"strong"  nor  "weak,"  and  therefore  innocent  of  attraction 
for  the  Psyche.  Therefore,  while  the  strong  attracts,  the 
"weak"  object  repels  the  Psyche,  or  begets  in  the  Psyche  an 
averson  from  it.  The  Psyche  is  conscious  of  the  newly 
upheaved  aversional  emotion,  and  cognizes  the  emotional  self 
in  this  aroused  function,  as  militant  against  the  attractival 
emotion. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated;  the  negative 
term  upheaved  is  united  with  the  positive  and  energetically 
reinforces  it ;  the  Psyche  is  pulled  by  the  positive  emotion  and 
pushed  by  the  negative;  it  responds  to  the  attraction  of  the 
desired  object  and  averts  itself  from  the  repellant  object. 
This  reciprocal  activity  takes  places  within  the  sphere  of  con- 
sciousness, and  is  therefore  cognized.  The  Psyche  recipro- 
ceives  its  emotional  self — it  knows  its  emotional  self  in  terms 
of  its  reciprocal  functions.  This  last  reciproceived  sub- 
division is  added  to,  and  inwardly  extends,  the  continent  of 
the  Cognized  Self. 

THE  PONTAL  PSYCHOSIS. 
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS  OF  THE  SIXTH  ORDER. 

The  Formal  Process : 

(1)  The  Thesis:  The  Products  of  the  last  (Differential) 
Psychosis  are  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Posited  Products  are  Negated; 
Positive  and  Negative  Psychical  activity  is  generated;  the 
Positive  begets  the  objective  Polar  Psychosis — the  Negative, 
the  Subjective  Polar  Psychosis.      This,  the  Analysis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated;  the  co-ordi- 
nate Polar  Products   are  united  without   fusion;   and   thus 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.        21 

ground  the  Sixth  Order  of  self-consciousness.  The  Psyche 
is  conscious  of  himself  as  an  Agent,  emotionally  functioning  in 
reciprocal  energizings. 

THE  ANTITHETICAL  PSYCHOSIS. 
THE  OBJECTIVE  PSYCHOSIS. 
GENECEPTION. 

1.  Here,  as  elsewhere,  the  law  obtains  that  the  Progress  of 
the  psyche  upward  from  its  last  achieved  Psychosic  products 
to  its  next  higher  estate  begins  in  the  positing  of  the  last  cor- 
responding product,  in  this  case,  the  objective  Reciprocept. 

2.  Another  law  is  also  of  force  here,  as  elsewhere ;  that  the 
Analytical  step  of  the  Psychosis  involves  the  explication  of  the 
Implicated  element  in  the  last  Product — and  the  Synthetical 
step,  the  binding  back  of  the  explicated  element  to  the  term 
out  of  which  it  was  evolved. 

3.  The  Problem  here,  then,  is  the  Transformation  of  the 
Reciprocept  into  the  Genecept — the  lifting  of  the  Diathetives 
into  Antithetives.  Diathetives  are  not  true  opposites ;  Anti- 
thetives  are. 

4.  Heat  and  cold  (scientifically  thought)  are  Diathetives; 
for  science  defines  cold  as  the  absence  of  heat.  In  this  objec- 
tive sense,  the  limit  of  the  negative  term  of  this  pair  of  Diathe- 
tives is  naught,  or  the  total  absence  of  heat.  Now  working 
under  this  abstract  and  objective  Definition  alone,  the  Diathe- 
tives could  by  no  possible  means  be  metamorphosed  into  the 
Genecept. 

5.  But  the  Diathetives  hot-cold,  strong-weak,  etc.,  impli- 
cate a  median  between  the  terms  of  the  reciprocept — some- 
thing that  is  neither  hot  nor  cold,  strong  nor  weak. 

6.  The  making  of  this  Median  explicit,  in  a  natural  or  con- 
ventional standard,  lifts  the  Reciprocals  into  true  Opposites. 
For  instance,  establish  a  unit  or  standard  of  strength,  and  a 
given  object  will  be  pronounced  strong  or  weak  as  it  exceeds 


22        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

or  falls  below  it,  and  the  excess  or  deficiency  will  logically  be 
expressed  as  so  many  units  "long"  or  so  many  units  "short." 

7.  The  normal  temperature  of  the  body  is  a  natural 
Median.  Let  the  temperature  of  a  room  be  a  given  number  of 
degrees  above  the  bodily  temperature  of  an  occupant ;  let  the 
occupant  remove  to  another  room  the  temperature  of  which 
shall  be  exactly  that  of  his  body;  then,  let  the  occupant 
remove  to  a  third  room  whose  temperature  shall  be  as  many 
degrees  below  that  of  the  second  room  as  that  of  the  first  room 
is  above  it.  This  would  actually  explicate  the  Median  (the 
body-temperature),  and  actualize  the  Antithesis  of  the  third 
room's  temperature  to  that  of  the  first  room's. 

8.  Now,  let  the  occupant  return  to  the  first  room  by  way  of 
the  second,  remaining  (on  the  return  trip  as  on  the  first)  in 
the  several  rooms  long  enough  to  have  his  bodily  temperature 
assimilated  to  that  of  the  room  occupied. 

9.  On  the  first  trip,  the  occupant  reduces  his  bodily  temper- 
ature from  that  of  the  first  room  to  that  of  the  second  room, 
and  then  from  that  of  the  second  to  that  of  the  third ;  on  the 
return  trip,  he  raises  its  temperature  from  that  of  the  third 
room  to  that  of  the  second,  and  from  that  of  the  second  to  that 
of  the  first  room.  He  completes  the  circuit,  returning  to  the 
room  whence  he  set  out. 

10.  An  insensate  object  could  be  made  to  complete  this 
circuit,  and  even  to  register  the  reduction  and  the  rise  in  tem- 
perature; but  it  could  effect  no  Psychosic  passage.  The 
mind  of  man,  with  the  aid  of  a  thermometer,  could  psychosize 
the  passage  of  the  object. 

11.  But  in  making  the  circuit  himself,  Man  is  not  only  a 
thermometer,  but  a  self-reading  thermometer;  therefore,  his 
circuit  is  a  realized  Psychosis. 

12.  Man  here  naturally  assumes  his  bodily  temperature,  as 
the  median  or  zero,  because  not  sensibly  felt ;  and  he  cognizes 
cold  as  below,  and  heat  as  above,  this  point  of  indifference ;  and 
bringing  them  together  in  the  Synthesis,  he  comes  into  the 
possession  of  the  Genecept  "hot-cold." 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.        23 

13.  The  Actualized  Psychosis  given  above  not  only  involves 
the  conspiring  Psychosis  of  the  Intellect,  the  Feeling  and  the 
Will,  but  comprises  in  itself  both  the  terminal  Psychoses — the 
subjective  and  the  objective  Processes, 

14.  The  Psyche  acquires  in  this  subjective-objective 
Process  the  power  hereafter  to  separate  the  two  and  to 
project  the  objective  complement,  detached,  into  outer  nature, 
and  to  confine  the  subjective  complement  in  perfect  inde- 
pendence within  the  self. 

15.  In  this  particular  example  of  the  Psychosis,  the  objec- 
tive Psychosis  may  be  separated  and  absolved  from  its  Objec- 
tive Complement,  and  projected  outward  in  the  invention  or 
the  rethinking  of  (say)  the  Centregrade  thermometer.  The 
freezing  point  of  water  is  conventionally  established  as  the 
Median  or  the  zero ;  and  intelligently  to  read  the  temperature 
of  the  atmosphere,  by  means  of  the  thermometer,  requires  the 
objective  passage  of  the  mind  only  through  the  Antithetical 
Psychosis. 

16.  The  separation  and  outward  projection  of  the  objec- 
tive complement  from  its  co-agency,  with  its  subjective  com- 
plement, leaves  the  latter  free  to  function  abstractly. 

17.  This  lifts  the  Psyche  above  outer  nature  and  enables 
him  to  embody  his  thought  in  the  Cosmos.  Heretofore,  man 
has  been  reading  the  thought  embodied  in  outer  nature  and 
actualizing  his  corresponding  inborn  potentialties. 

18.  The  Evolution  of  the  Algebraic  signs  Plus  and  Minus 
best  explicate  the  now  divorced,  liberated,  or  independent 
objective  process.  Plus  and  Minus  in  arithmetic  are  signs 
of  operations  only.  The  Arithmetic  number  six,  for  instance, 
is  neither  Plus  nor  Minus  six ;  it  is  simply  six  without  direc- 
tional significance.  From  the  simple  arithmetic  six,  the  Alge- 
braic Plus-Minus  six  is  thus  evolved. 

(1)  The  simple  number  six  (whether  concrete  or  abstract) 
is  Posited. 


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THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 


(2)  The  Posited  number  is  Negated,  the  number  is  passed 
downward  to  and  through  zero  six  units  (say)  of  distance. 
The  Product  is  minus  six.      This  the  Analysis  (antithesis). 

(3)  The  Minus  six  is  now  Negated;  that  is,  it  is  turned 
about  and  passed  back  up  to,  and  through,  zero  six  units  of 
distance.  The  Product  is  Plus  six.  Plus  is  then,  in  essence, 
Minus  times  Minus ;  the  minus  is  then  not  destroyed,  but,  on 
the  contrary,  transformed  and  preserved  in  the  product  Plus, 
as  its  fundamental  element.  The  Antithetical  Negation  of 
the  Antithetical  Negation  yields  the  real  Positive. 

19.  The  Formal  Algebraic  Process: 

( 1 )  The  Thesis :  The  simple  arithmetic  6  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  —IX  (times)  6=— 6. 

(3)  TheSynthesis:— IX— 6=+6. 

20.  The  Process  Diagrammed: 


(1) 

(3) 

(2) 

61 

1 

6|+6 

+6 

5 

5  +5 

+5 

4 

4  +4 

+4 

3 

3+3 

-J-3 

2 

2  +2 

+2 

1 

1  +1 

+  1 

0 

0      0 

0 

— 1 

1       1 

1 

—2 

2      2 

2 

—3 

—3      3 

3 

—4 

—4      4 

4 

—5 

—5      5 

5 

—6 

—6      6 

6 

Explanation  of  Diagram: 

(1)  Zero  not  absolute  Naught,  but  a  dual  Potence;  here 
a  point  or  potence  of  linear  extension  in  two  determinate 
directions ;  in  the  downward  passage  it  is  a  Negative  Potence, 
in  the  upward  passage  a  Positive  Potence. 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.        25 

(2)  The  Arithmetic  six,  at  the  head  of  the  first  line,  indi- 
cates that  this  number  has  been  taken  with  an  upward  ten- 
dency and  an  implicated  downward  Potence ;  Minus  six,  at  the 
foot  of  the  line,  indicates  that  the  Posited  upward  tendency 
has  been  negated  and  that  the  implicated  downward  Potence 
has  been  explicated. 

(3)  The  Plus  six,  at  the  top  of  the  second  line, 
really  retraced  in  an  opposite  direction  the  path  of  the 
first,  and  therefore  coincides  with  it  (as  represented  in  third 
line)  ;  and  indicates  that  the  inverted  number  (line),  repre- 
sented by  minus,  six  has  itself  been  inverted.  Minus  six  has 
been  passed  up  to  zero  and  through  it  six  units  above.  The 
simple  six  mediately  and  the  minus  six  immediately  have  been 
lifted  and  transformed  into  Plus  six. 

(4)  Notice  that  in  the  reduction  of  the  minus  six  upward 
to  zero,  the  foot  of  the  line  has  passed  through  six  units  of 
distance,  or  that  this  line  in  its  totality  and  its  sectional 
parts  exactly  reproduces  in  potence  the  original  line.  This 
line,  like  the  original,  is  unaffected  with  any  sign.  Its  meas- 
urements are  expressed  like  those  of  its  original,  in  simple 
arithmetic  numbers.     Hence  the  general  law. 

(5)  Conceive  the  line  to  be  a  small  hollow  cylinder  of  the 
same  length  and  placed  in  its  original  position  pointing 
North.  To  pass  it  through  the  Antithetical  Ps3^chosis: 
Invert  the  cylinder  (or  conceive  it  to  be  inverted)  by  slowly 
turning  its  outside  in  (beginning  at  the  top).  When  its 
lowest  section  has  been  turned  outside  in,  the  entire  cylinder 
will  have  been  turned  outside  in  and,  by  consequence,  inside 
out  and  it  will  lie  below  zero,  pointing  South.  So  long  as  the 
turned-in  sections  are  sheathed  or  enveloped  by  the  unturned- 
in  sections,  they  have  only  a  downward  Potence  and  are  sim- 
ple arithmetic  quantities,  that  is,  they  are  only  potentially 
Negative.  When  half  the  cylinder  has  been  turned-in,  the 
other  half  remains  unturned-in ;  and  the  turned-in  half  has  a 
downward  potence,  and  the  unturned-in  half  an  upward 
potence.     At  this  stage  in  the  process,  the  two  extremities  of 


26        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

the  cylinder  meet  in  the  zero  point ;  when  the  process  of  turn- 
ing the  outside  in  and,  by  consequence,  the  inside  out  is  com- 
pleted, the  inversion  is  accomplished.  Now,  in  the  inversion 
of  the  inverted  cylinder,  the  steps  of  the  process  are  simply 
inversely  retraced.  The  new  outside  is  slowly  turned  inside 
(beginning  at  the  lower  extremity),  and  the  several  segments 
become,  as  they  are  one  by  one  turned  in  potentially 
positive;  and  as  they  emerge,  from  the  sheath  above  zero, 
they  acquire  an  actually  positive  character  and  are  affected 
with  a  plus  sign.  This  the  Antithetical  Inversion.  There 
is  also  a  Diathetical  Inversion,  which  consists  in  the  mere 
turning  of  the  outside  in,  or  of  the  inside  out.  The  simple 
Embryo  is  the  parent  organism  Diathetically  inverted ;  the 
highest  organ  becomes,  in  this  inversion,  the  lowest  or  inmost 
and  the  lowest  the  highest.  The  embryo  in  complete  Self- 
Evolution  Diathetically  inverts  itself.  The  significant  fact 
is  the  First  Psychosic  Procession  in  its  own  entirety  and  in 
that  of  each  of  its  Progressions,  is  an  inversional  Evolution ; 
and  the  completion  of  the  three  inversional  evolutions  syn- 
chronize. 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY 


27 


DIAGKAM. 


(-6;  6 


Explanation  of  Diagram: 

(1)  Conceive  the  six-unit  line  to  lie  on  a  level  surface,  the 
upper  extremity  pointing  North  and  the  foot  being  made  fast. 
Turn  the  line  to  the  left,  letting  it  revolve  on  its  foot  as  a 
pivot  until  the  line  points  due  South ;  the  line  describes  a 
semicircle;  the  upper  extremity  (as  does  each  divisional 
point)  a  semicircumference.  Then,  continue  the  revolution  of 
the  line  till  its  original  position  is  recovered ;  the  semicircles 
and  the  semicircumferences  are  completed.  The  line  has  been 
Inverted,  and  the  Inversion  in  turn  Inverted.  The  line  has 
been  passed  through  the  Antithetical  Psychosis.  The  Inver- 
sion of  the  Inversion  of  an  object  or  a  quantity  is  equivalent 
to  the  Antithetical  Negation  of  the  Antithecal  Negation  of 
the  given  object  or  quantity. 


28        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

(2)  The  sectional  products,  for  convenience,  may  be 
transferred  from  the  diameter  to  the  corresponding  points 
on  the  circumference  of  the  great  circle — as  indicated  above. 

21.  (1)  Let  an  object  be  looked  at  through  a  single  lensed 
glass;  the  rays  of  light  reflected  from  the  object  will  be 
brought  to  a  focus  by  the  lense,  and  will  pass  thence  in 
unbroken  straight  lines  to  the  eye;  the  upper  portion  of  the 
object,  therefore,  will  appear  to  be  the  lower,  and  the  lower 
the  upper ;  the  right  side  the  left  and  vice  versa.  The  obj  ect 
is  thus  inverted  or  antithesized. 

(2)  Now  if  the  Inverted  object  (picture)  is  viewed  through 
the  same  glass,  the  inversion  will  be  inverted  or  made  to 
appear  in  its  original  upright  position.  The  Inversion  of 
the  inversion  of  the  simple  yields  the  Positive. 

(3)  In  the  Lensical  inversion,  there  is  a  focus  where  all  the 
rays  of  light  converge  to  a  point ;  this  focal  point  corresponds 
to  the  zero  in  the  Algebraic  Process.  In  each  inversion 
(or  Antithetical  Negation),  there  is  an  ante-focal  and  a 
post-focal  process.  These  subprocesses  are  as  yet  merely 
implicated.  They  are  to  be  explicated  in  the  next  highest 
order  of  the  Psychosis — the  Ethical. 

THE  ANTITHETICAL  PSYCHOSIS. 
SUBJECTIVE  PROCESS. 

1.  Absolute  Naught  is  in  itself  unthinkable,  but  it  is  con- 
ceivable as  the  Negation  of  Being;  the  simple  naught  repre- 
sents to  the  human  mind  the  mere  absence  of  a  thing;  and  in 
the  absence  of  all  things  there  remains  space,  the  potence  of 
all  things. 

2.  The  Simple  Naught  is  then  the  lowest  limit  of  the 
Cosmos;  this  limit  can  not  be  passed  by  a  thing;  nature, 
neither  in  part  nor  in  its  entirety,  can  be  reduced  below  the 
Naught. 

3.  But  the  mind  may  assume  a  median  and  qualitatively  or 
quantitatively  pass  an  object  down  to  and  through  it.      This 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.        29 

median  is  called  zero;  and  is  qualitatively  or  quantitatively 
indifferent  with  respect  to  the  former  and  latter  estate  of  the 
object.  The  zero  is  therefore  only  relatively  Naught  and  the 
potence  of  the  latter  estate  of  the  object. 

4.  Heat  and  cold  scientifically  reflected  yields  the  Recipro- 
cept ;  to  evolve  it  into  the  Genecept,  it  was  found  necessary  to 
assume  the  normal  body-temperature  as  the  median  (zero). 

5.  In  the  objective  process,  the  body  then  was  actually 
passed  down  to,  and  through,  the  zero  (its  normal)  tempera- 
ture and  back  again  to  its  original  estate. 

6.  This  actual  circular  Passage  was  transformed  into 
thought,  through  the  Process  of  Geneception,  and  the  product 
achieved  is  termed  a  Genecept. 

7.  This  was  accomplished  in  the  objective  Polar  Psychosis. 
But  here  our  concern  is  immediately  with  its  co-ordinate  sub- 
jective process. 

8.  The  Formal  Process. 

( 1 )  The  Thesis :  The  Achieved  Self-Reciprocept  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis :  The  Posited  Product  is  Negated.  The 
Reciprocal  Terms  are  transformed  into  real  or  Antithetical 
Terms.  To  do  this,  a  median  must  be  found.  The  median, 
taken  in  the  co-ordinate  objective  process,  was  the  normal 
temperature  of  the  body.  In  the  subjective  process,  we  would 
naturally  suspect  that  the  normal,  externally  unstimulated 
emotional  mind,  would  afford  us  the  one  possible  median; 
and  so,  it  does.  The  outer  median  is  the  normal  body  tem- 
perature ;  the  inner  median,  the  normal  psychical  temperature. 
But  if  the  Normal  Emotional  temperature  is  the  median,  the 
emotional  Nature  conditions,  but  can  not  energize,  this  Psy- 
chosis. The  egoistic  Will  is  here  upheaved  into  consciousness 
and  energetically  functions  in  the  process.  It  seizes  the 
negative  term  of  the  reciprocept  and  passes  it  down  to  and 
through  the  zero,  or  median,  into  the  anima — as  far  below 
the  median  as  the  major  term  of  the  reciprocept  is  above  it. 
Thus,  there  is  aroused,  and  lifted  into  consciousness,  a 
physical  feeling  that  antagonizes  the  major  psychical  emo- 
tion.    The  Reciprocal  terms  are  transformed  into  real  oppo- 


30        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

sites,  or  Antithetical  terms.     This  the  Analysis  or  the  Anti- 
thesis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated;  the  Nega- 
tive term  is  Antithetically  Negated;  the  resisting  physical 
feeling  is  turned  about  (the  Will  functioning  energetically)  ; 
and  passed  up  to  and  through  the  median,  a  distance  equal  to 
the  reflected  descent.  The  resisting  physical  feeling  has  not 
only  been  overcome,  but  transformed  into  a  co-operant  of  the 
psychical  emotion.  Now  the  upheaved  will,  the  energizer  of 
this  Psychosis,  has  been  withdrawn  and  recovered  in  the  com- 
pletion of  the  process.  The  Psyche  has  Geneceived  itself; 
and  the  continent  of  the  cognized  self  has  received  another 
inner  increment.  The  Psyche  has  cognized  himself  in  terms 
of  his  Will.  The  continent  of  his  cognized  self  now  embraces 
a  sentient  body,  indwelt  of  a  mind  that  functions  as  Intellect, 
Feeling,  and  Will.  The  Psyche  by  Self-evolution  has  achieved 
his  Facultative  Trinity  in  Unity. 

THE  PONTAL  PSYCHOSIS. 

9.  The  Formal  Process. 

(1)  The  Thesis:  The  last  Achieved  Ps3^chical  Estate  is 
Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Positive  Estate  is  Negated;  Posi- 
tive and  Negative  Psychical  activity  is  generated — these 
originate  and  sustain — the  one  the  objective  Polar  Psychosis, 
the  other  the  subjective  Polar  Psychosis.     This,  the  Analysis. 

(3)  The  S^^nthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated;  the  co-or- 
dinate products  of  the  Polar  Psychoses  are  united,  without 
fusion;  and  ground  the  seventh  Order  of  self-consciousness. 
The  Psyche  is  conscious  of  himself  as  having  actual  dominion 
over  his  body,  and  potential  dominion  over  Nature.  He  is 
conscious  of  himself  as  a  Free  Agent — capable  of  perfect  self- 
determination  in  the  realm  of  Nature. 

10.  Man,  now,  is  prepared  to  enter  the  Second  Psychosic 
Procession;  but  his  supernatural  relationships  are  to  be 
determined  in  the  reflections  of  the  Divine  Pneumaticosic  and 
Divine  Psychosic  Processions,  before  we  shall  be  able  to  com- 
prehend the  second  Procession  of  the  human  Psychosis. 


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32        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

GENERAL  INFERENCES. 

1.  The  Psyche  even  in  its  lowest  estate  is  self-active;  the 
Psyche  is,  therefore,  the  Agent  (involuntary  or  voluntary)  of 
the  Psychosis. 

2.  Consciousness  is  the  primal  Psychic  fact,  and  therefore, 
is  indefinable;  but,  analogically  speaking,  it  is  the  inner 
subjective  Light  that  answers  to  the  outer  objective  sunlight, 
as  Anti-type  to  type. 

3.  The  Primordial  Psychosis  is  an  incomplete  Psychosis, 
without  Terminal  (Polar)  Psychosic  Products;  its  co-ordi- 
nate products  are  immediately  cognized ;  they  are,  therefore, 
the  products  of  intuition. 

4.  The  Definitival  Psychosis  is  Imperfect,  in  that  its  proc- 
esses take  place  beneath  the  threshold  of  consciousness — the 
co-ordinate  products  alone  are  lifted  into  consciousness. 
Sense-perception  is,  therefore,  sometimes  mistaken  for  intui- 
tion. 

5.  The  Objective  Process  is  always  Positive,  and  the  sub- 
jective always  Negative;  the  latter  is,  therefore,  always  con- 
sequential on  the  former.  The  Psyche,  therefore,  can  never 
become  a  normal  or  legitimate  end  unto  itself.  "Whosoever 
will  save  his  Psyche  shall  lose  it." 

6.  Every  Psj^chosis  deepens  the  last  achieved  co-ordinate 
cognitions;  the  respective  products  of  the  objective  and  sub- 
jective processes  of  the  several  orders  are  linked  together — 
each  in  the  unity  of  an  unbroken  progression;  and  the  two 
progressions  (one  the  objective,  the  other  subjective)  consti- 
tute a  Procession.  So  that  the  highest  Cognition  or  self-cog- 
nition is  implicated  in  the  lowest  product  of  its  progression. 

7.  In  like  manner,  all  higher  Orders  of  the  Psychosis  are 
wrapped  up  in  the  First ;  they  are  unwrapped,  evolved,  or 
explicated  in  the  orderly  progress  of  the  Psychoses.  The 
Orderly  Processes  of  the  Psychoses,  therefore,  constitute  an 
unbroken  Procession. 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.         33 

8.  By  reason  of  this  concatenation  of  the  orders  of  the 
Psychosis  and  their  products,  the  Psyche  intuits  on  the 
objective  side  the  unity  and  continuity  of  Nature;  and  on  the 
subjective  side  the  unity  and  continuity  of  the  self. 

9.  The  impHcations  of  the  higher  processes  and  products 
in  the  subjective  progression,  as  in  the  objective,  dower  the 
Psyche  with  the  faculty  of  Prescience — a  man's  inner  guide 
in  the  search  for  Truth.  By  virtue  of  this  power  of  antici- 
pating or  divining  unattained  truth,  man  transforms  achieved 
cognitions  into  symbols  of  higher  truths  and  thus  effects  an 
early  entrance  into  the  realms  of  Myths  and  Poetry. 

10.  There  are  Nine  Orders  of  the  Negative,  the  Primordial, 
the  Definitival,  the  Analytical,  the  Abstractival,  the  Differen- 
tial, the  Diathetical,  the  Antithetical,  the  Absential  and  the 
Absolute.  When  the  phrase  "the  Negation  of  the  Negation" 
is  used,  it  is  implied  that  the  Negations  are  of  the  same  order, 
except  (as  we  shall  see)  in  orders  higher  than  the  Anthitheti- 
cal,  where  the  analytical  and  synthetical  steps  are  each 
broken  into  two  processes — ante-focal  and  post-focal. 

11.  It  is  the  final  office  of  the  Pontal  Psychosis,  which  ini- 
tiates and  sustains  the  Polar  processes,  to  bind  the  advancing 
pairs  of  cognate  products  into  increasingly  intimate  relation- 
ships ;  and  to  ground  thereby  the  corresponding  orders  of  the 
self-consciousness. 

12.  Man,  in  his  physical  organism,  is  the  transformed 
microcosm.  The  objects  and  the  products  of  the  co-ordinate 
Polar  Psychoses  are  always  of  corresponding  denominations, 
though  of  differing  Realms. 

13.  As  the  outer  and  inner  cognitions  deepen,  the  objects, 
on  which  the  Polar  Psychoses  terminate,  approach  nearer  and 
nearer  the  ultimate  truth  uttered  in  creation. 

14.  In  the  Antithetical  Psychosis,  the  Polar  processes  ter- 
minate on  the  same  object;  the  objective  process  on  the 
object's  outer  face,  the  subjective  on  its  inner  face. 

15.  As  the  processes  approach  this  common  goal  of  the 
individual  psychic  life,  their  affinity  for  each  other  manifests 


34.        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

itself  in  the  increasing  number  and  brilliancy  of  its  psychical 
sparks — the  consciousness  grows  in  luminosity. 

16.  The  movement  of  the  subjective  process  is  always  the 
directional  opposite  of  that  of  the  objective  process;  for 
example,  the  inversion  of  the  outer  object  in  the  last  or  sixth 
order  of  the  Psychosis  is  accomplished  by  turning  its  outside 
in,  and  by  consequence  its  inside  out — while  in  the  subjective 
process  the  inner  object  is  inverted  by  turning  the  inside 
out,  and  consequently  the  outside  in.  This  the  Analytical 
step.  Likewise  in  the  Synthetical  step  (the  inversion  of  the 
inversion)  the  directional  opposition  is  maintained.  Recur- 
ring to  the  circular  illustration,  the  objective  Psychosis 
describes  a  circle  by  turning  the  object  (line)  to  the  left  as  it 
rests  on  its  foot  as  a  pivot,  while  the  subjective  Psychosis 
generates  a  circle  by  the  like  movement  of  the  inner  object 
to  the  right. 

17.  Psychical  Man  is  a  creature ;  and  the  directional  move- 
ment of  his  subjective  process  must  be  congruent  with  the 
processes  of  Nature  or  the  Cosmicoses,  while  that  of  his  objec- 
tive process  must  contravene  the  direction  of  the  Cosmicoses ; 
and  so  man  makes  Nature  to  yield  up  her  Seven  orders  of  the 
Psychosic  truth.  Strictly  speaking,  there  are  only  six 
orders  of  Truth,  the  first  order  being  the  empty  or  potential 
continent  of  the  higher  orders. 

18.  The  Psyche's  passage  of  an  outer  object,  through  any 
given  order  of  the  Psychosis,  involves  the  turning  of  the 
object  outside  in,  and  of  the  self  inside  out.  The  inside  of 
the  object  is  brought  in  contact  with  the  inside  of  the  self, 
and  is  as  idea  appropriated  by  the  self.  The  idea  is,  then 
(in  the  synthesis),  referred  back  to  the  object,  on  the  one 
side ;  and  on  the  other,  rooted  in  the  Psyche. 

19.  Nature  is,  then,  a  message  of  six  words  to  man.  This 
much  Adam  apprehends;  and  the  apprehension  qualifies  him 
to  receive  a  revelation  from  on  High. 


PART  II. 

THE  DIVINE  PNEUMATISIS. 

"Open  thou  our  eyes,  that  we  may  behold  wondrous  things 
out  of  thy  law," 

1.  The  Divine  Pneumaticosis  is  the  mode  of  self-activity  of 
the  Divine  Being,  and  stands  related  to  the  Divine  Psychosis 
as  ultimate  and  absolute  self-activity  to  proximate  and  con- 
ditioned self-activity. 

2.  The  Divine  Psychosis  sustains  a  like  superior  relation 
to  the  human  psychosis ;  and  the  human  psychosis  in  a  modi- 
fied sense,  a  similar  relation  to  the  cosmicosis. 

3.  The  lower  ranks  of  self-activity  are  immediately  (in  the 
Divine  Psychosis)  or  mediately  (through  the  Divine  Psy- 
chosis) set  free,  by  the  absolute  self-activity  of  the  Divine 
Being.      There  is,  thus,  a  descending  scale  of  mediators. 

4.  All  creatures  are  created  by  the  Divine  Psyche  (Logos), 
energized  by  the  absolute  self-activity  of  the  Divine  Being. 
Man  is  generated  by  the  Divine  Psyche,  whose  will  is  set  free, 
by  the  energizing  influence  of  the  Divine  Being. 

5.  The  self-activities  of  the  several  Realms  of  Being  and  of 
Existence  conform  to  the  one  general  mode  of  action.  The 
cosmicosis  is  a  symbol  of  the  somaticosis ;  the  somaticosis 
(embracing  the  neurosis)  of  the  human  psychosis;  the  human 
psychosis  of  the  Divine  Psychosis,  and  the  Divine  Psychosis 
of  the  Divine  Pneumaticosis. 

6.  It  is  utterly  impossible,  as  the  history  of  Philosophy 
attests,  to  reflect  directly  in  human  thought  any  one  of  the 
pneumaticosic  processions.  But  they  are,  in  a  general  sense, 
susceptible  of  symbolical  reflections  in  terms  of  the  human 
mediated  by  the  Divine  Psychosic  processions.  These 
reflections  are  worthy  of  negative  acceptance,  in  so  far  as 
they  do  not  contravene  the  truths  of  revelation ;  and  of  posi- 
tive acceptance,  in  so  far  as  they  corroborate  the  Bible  doc- 
trine of  the  Divine  Being. 


86        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

7.  The  First  Procession  of  the  Divine  Pneumaticosis : 

(1)  The  Thesis  :  God  as  absolute  Being,  as  pure  self-actual- 
ized self-activity,  or  as  conscious  Spirit  is  posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis :  The  Posited  estate  of  the  Divine  Being 
is  self-negated;  the  Divine  Being  by  absolute  self-evolution 
differentiates  himself  into  subjective-objective  conjugal  being. 
Each  is  conscious  of  himself,  and  reciprocall\'^  each  of  the 
other.  Each  of  the  two  persons  is  conscious  of  himself  as 
distinguished  from  the  other.      This  the  analysis, 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  analysis  is  negated.  Each  per- 
son of  the  dual  Godhead  becomes  conscious  of  the  unity  and 
the  community  of  their  essential  being;  and  mutual  conjugal 
Being  is  evolved.  The  oneness  of  the  Godhead  overcomes,  and 
3^et  preserves,  the  Divine  duality.  The  procession  is  com- 
plete. 

8.  The  Divine  Being  is  a  perfect,  infinite,  and  self-contained 
sphere.  The  co-ordinate  pneumaticoses  (subjective  and 
objective)  have  their  sphere  of  operation  entirely  within  this 
unlimited  sphere.      God  cannot  therefore  immediately  create. 

9.  In  the  last  or  synthetical  step  of  the  first  procession. 
He  achieved  self-consciousness  and  thus  became  an  ethical 
agent.  He  evolved  in  the  same  procession  in  His  dual  being 
reciprocal  love.  And  love  in  operation  is  the  fulfilling  of  the 
law.  He  became  conscious  also  of  Himself  as  having  the 
power  (or  potence)  of  further  self-evolution  in  the  Son. 

10.  The  Second  Procession  at  once  Ethical  and  Reproduc- 
tival. 

( 1 )  The  Thesis :  The  self-achieved  estate  of  the  Divine 
Being  with  His  consciousness  of  His  power  of  further  self- 
evolution  in  the  Son  is  posited. 

(2)  The  Anah'sis — (a)  Antefocal  Process:  The  positive 
estate  is  negated.  The  dual  Godhead,  motived  by  conjugal 
love  and  the  desire  to  beget  a  Son,  functionally  unite  and 
project  the  Son  in  posse  (the  potential  filial  being)  down  to 
the  focal  point  (or  zero). 


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(b)  Analysis — Postfocal  Process:  The  projection  is  con- 
tinued till  the  lower  limit  is  attained.  The  product  is  the 
Divine  Psyche.  When  the  projection  reached  the  focal  point 
(zero),  the  filial  objective  being  was  reduced  to  an  embryo. 
As  the  projected  being  passes  out  of  the  focal  point,  it  divests 
itself  of  the  last  vestige  of  pneumatical  being ;  and  as  it  con- 
tinues the  descent  to  the  negative  pole,  it  acquires  a  being  that 
is  the  antithesis  or  opposite  of  filial  pneumatical  being,  which 
we  distinguish  as  the  Divine  Psyche.  Divine  Psychical  being 
is  therefore  the  antithetical  negative  of  filial  pneumatical 
being.  God  has  lowered  His  being  one  realm  in  the  Divine 
Psyche. 

(3)  The  Synthesis — The  Antefocal  Process:  The  analysis 
is  negated.  God  the  Father  sends  His  Holy  Spirit,  His  con- 
jugal mate  to  energize  and  guide  the  Divine  Psyche  through 
the  first  psychosic  procession.  The  Son,  the  Divine  Psyche, 
instinctively  obedient,  is  led  up  to  the  second  focal  point, 
where  He  achieves  self-consciousness.  This  involves  His 
conscious  self-evolution  into  subjective-objective  (conjugal) 
Divine  psychical  being. 

The  Synthesis — The  Postfocal  Process:  God's  further 
recovery  of  His  Son  is  conditioned  on  His  obedience.  God 
therefore  leads  the  Divine  Psyche  into  the  ethical  psychosis. 
"Let  us  make  man  in  our  image,  after  our  likeness."  The 
Son  freely  obeys  and  is  regenerated.  That  is,  the  Father 
on  the  obedience  of  His  Son  imparts  to  Him  through  the 
ministry  of  the  Holy  Spirit  pneumatical  being.  God  is  thus 
self-evolved  into  the  trinal  Godhead,  Father,  Son  and  Holy 
Spirit.     This  completes  the  synthesis. 

11.  God  the  Father  through  the  ministry  of  the  Holy 
Spirit  energizes  the  regenerate  Divine  Psyche  as  he  (the 
latter)  in  turn  energizes  and  guides  Adam  through  the  first 
psychosic  procession.  God  herein  achieves  His  seventh  estate 
of  pneumatical  being  and  the  Son  his  pneumatical  self-con- 
sciousness and  co-equality  with  the  Father  and  with  the  Holy 
Spirit.      The  severalty  and  the  unity  of  the  three  persons  of 


38         THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

the  Godhead  have  actualized  their  deepest  potentialities.  The 
self-differentiations  and  self-integrations,  proceeding  pari 
passu,  have  culminated  in  an  eternally  indissoluble,  because 
essential  bond  of  union  between  them. 

12.  To  ascribe  self-originated  dynamical  processions  to  the 
Divine  Being  can  by  no  possibility  derogate  from  the  dignity 
and  glory  of  God;  but,  on  the  contrary,  this  conception  of 
Hira  magnifies  and  glorifies  Him,  because  it  brings  Him 
nearer  to  us  even  as  it  separates  us  from  Him. 

THE  FIRST  PROCESSION  OF  THE  DIVINE  PSYCHE. 

13.  This  procession  requires  only  a  symbolical  reflection; 
for  the  first  human  psychosic  procession  is  a  faithful  and 
adequate  symbol  of  the  Divine  psychosic  procession — if  due 
allowance  is  made  for  the  difference  between  the  essential  being 
of  the  Divine  Psyche  and  that  of  the  Adamic  Psyche.  Divine 
psychical  being  is  the  antithetical  negative  of  potentially 
filial  pneumatical  being.  So,  to  anticipate  the  next  procession, 
human  psychical  being  is  the  antithetical  negative  of  poten- 
tially filial  divine  psychical  being.  The  Divine  Psyche  by 
divine  generation  possessed  a  realm  of  being  intermediate 
between  that  of  pneumatical  being  and  human  psychical  being. 
And  therefore  the  Divine  Psyche  was  as  much  above  the  human 
psyche  in  dignitj^  and  power  as  He  was  by  generation  beneath 
God,  the  Pneuma.  To  the  Divine  Psyche  was  given  the  power 
to  create  nature;  to  Adam  the  power  merely  to  appropriate 
the  thought  embodied  in  nature.  To  the  Divine  Psyche 
evolved  up  into  adolescence  the  power  to  generate  Adam;  to 
Adam  merely  the  power  to  progenerate  offspring  and  pro- 
create nature — to  carry  forward  to  completion  and  perfection 
the  works  of  the  Divine  Psyche's  hand. 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.        39 

14.  The  Formal  Process : 

( 1 )  The  Thesis :  The  primal  estate  of  the  Divine  Psyche, 
which  is  one  of  simple  consciousness,  is  posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis — (a)  The  Antefocal  Process:  The  pos- 
ited estate  is  negated.  The  Divine  Psyche,  instinctively  obe- 
dient to  the  gentle  influences  of  the  Holy  Spirit  proceeding 
from  the  Father,  differentiates  Himself  by  a  progressive  self- 
evolution  through  six  orders  into  conjugal-subjective  and 
conjugal-objective  being — this  differentiated  estate  is  the 
product  of  the  subjective  progression.  The  co-ordinate  objec- 
tive progression  issues  in  six  rising  orders  of  creature;  the 
lowest  (quasi)  creature  (space),  the  primal  negation  of  the 
absolute  naught ;  the  next  in  order  is  matter,  giving  space  its 
implicated  content;  and  in  order,  protoplasmic  (uni-cellular) 
life ;  gemmational  life ;  bi-sexed  life,  and  non-human  sexed  life. 
In  the  subjective  progression,  the  Divine  Psyche  evolves  or 
actualizes  the  six  orders  of  potential  psychical  being;  and  in 
the  last  pontal  psychosis  (as  in  each  of  the  lower  pontal  psy- 
choses in  order)  the  co-products  are  united  without  fusion — 
the  objective  with  the  subjective  as  body  with  soul.  That  is, 
each  order  of  nature  is  the  body  or  outside  of  its  co-ordinate 
subjective  cognitive  product;  and  nature  in  its  entirety  the 
body  or  outside  of  the  Divine  Psyche's  cognitive  progression. 
The  Divine  Psyche  has  achieved  a  trinal  self-consciousness : 
(1)  The  consciousness  of  himself  as  the  Son  of  God;  (2)  as 
other  than  and  Lord  of  nature;  (3)  and  as  conjugal  subjec- 
tive-objective being.  The  first  procession  of  the  Divine  Psy- 
chosis is  complete.  In  the  objective  progression,  the  Divine 
Psyche  actualizes  the  orderly  thought  of  the  Father.  For  God 
in  the  achievement  of  pneumatical  self-consciousness  intuited 
the  absolute  naught  as  the  absolute  negation  of  Being. 
This  negation  He  negates  through  the  mediation  of  His  Son, 
energized  by  the  Holy  Spirit.  Hence  the  Father  functions  in 
creation  as  Intellect,  the  Holy  Spirit  as  Feeling  and  the  Son 
as  Will. 


40        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

15.  The  Second  Procession  of  the  Divine  Psychosis  at 
once  Ethical  and  Reproductival : 

(1)  TliG  Thesis:  The  Divine  Psyche  in  his  trinal  self- 
conscious  estate,  and  in  communion  and  fellowship  with  God  is 
posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  posited  estate  is  negated.  The 
gentle  imperative  of  God,  "Let  us  make  man  in  our  image, 
after  our  likeness,"  begets  in  the  Divine  Psyche  the  conscious- 
ness of  himself  as  a  free,  ethical  agent,  and  provokes  the 
question : 

"Shall  I  say  Yes  (to  God)? 
If  I  do  not  say  Yes,  I  must  say  No." 

This  the  analysis  breaking  in  thought  his  communion  with 
God. 

(3)  The  Synthesis :  The  analysis  is  negated.  The  ideally 
broken  fellowship  with  God  is  restored,  enhanced  in  the 
deliberated  actional  response : 

"But  I  cannot  say  No  (to  God), 
Therefore  I  say  (in  action),  Yes." 

16.  The  Divine  Psyche  generates  Man  and  is  himself  as  the 
reward  of  his  obedience  pneumatically  regenerated.  Con- 
scious pneumatical  being  is  implanted  in  the  Divine  Psyche 
and  he  is  lifted  up  out  of  the  focal  point  into  full  community 
of  being  with  God.  He  is  not  yet,  however,  self-conscious 
as  a  pneumatical  being. 

17.  Because  of  the  simplicity  of  the  Divine  Psyche's  being, 
God's  command,  "Let  us  make  man  in  our  image,  after  our 
likeness,"  is  positive  and  not  negative  (as  in  the  case  of  man 
whose  being  was  complex  embracing  soul  and  body).  The 
Divine  Psyche,  his  adulthood  having  been  achieved,  was  pre- 
pared to  generate  a  Son  and  instinctively  desired  to  do  so. 
The  command  validated  this  constitutional  desire;  and  there 
was  no  possible  alternative  objective  end  to  beget  a  conflicting 
desire.      He,  therefore,  must  have  obediently  generated  man 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.        41 

or  have  contumaciously  refused  to  do  so ;  which  latter  would 
have  been  deliberately  "To  reject  God  that  He  should  rule 
over  Him" — to  defy  Him,  to  "say  No  to  God."  But  this 
was  impossible  to  the  Divine  Psyche;  for  he  not  only  had 
a  constitutional  desire  to  objectify  himself  in  a  son,  but  he 
had  also  an  essential  affinity  for  God  as  the  exalted  source  of 
his  own  being.  He,  therefore,  recognized  God  as  his  right- 
ful Lord.  Moreover,  filial  love  to  the  Father  reinforced  the 
dictates  of  his  awakened  conscience,  and  he  infallibly  obeyed 
the  Divine  command.  Therefore,  we  conclude  that  the  Divine 
Psyche  was  impeccable. 

18.  It  is  well  to  note  that  the  Son  of  God's  ethical  psy- 
chosis was  Antithetical,  and  that  he  passed  down  through  the 
focal  point  without  arrest  to  "No"  in  his  deliberation. 
Adam's  ethical  psychosis  will  be  found  to  be  a  transformed 
antithetical;  and  to  require  a  rest  at  the  focal  point  as  in 
deliberation  he  passes  down  to  the  negative  pole  ("No"). 

19.  Because  the  Divine  Psyche's  response  in  the  ethical 
psychosis  to  God  was  in  action,  the  Divine  Psyche's  projec- 
tival  procession  is  comprehended  by  the  ethical.  It  requires, 
however,  a  separate  reflection,  which  is  given  below. 

THE  DIVINE  REPRODUCTIVAL  PSYCHOSIS. 

THE  PROJECTIVAL  PROCESSION. 

SUBJECTIVE  PROGRESSION. 

20.  The  Formal  Process: 

(1)  The  Thesis:  The  Divine  Psyche  in  his  estate  of  ethi- 
cal deliberation  is  posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  posited  estate  is  negated;  the 
Divine  Psyche  says  "Yes"  in  loyally  obedient  action  to  the 
Divine  command,  "Let  us  make  man  in  our  image  after  our 
likeness."  The  conjugal  persons  of  the  Divine  Psyche  func- 
tionally unite  in  the  projection  of  their  potential  filial  being 


42        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

down  to  and  through  the  focal  point  (zero)  to  the  limit  of 
the  movement.      This  the  analysis. 

In  its  descent  to  the  focal  point  the  potential  filial  being 
progressively  divests  itself  of  its  Divine  Psychical  Being  and 
reaches  the  zero  estate  with  only  an  infinitesimal  remainder  of 
that  realm  of  being  whence  it  descended.  Passing  out  of  the 
focal  point  it  divests  itself  of  the  last  vestige  of  Divine  Psy- 
chical Being,  and  descending  gradually  assumes  a  new  and 
lower  realm  of  being — human  psychical — which  is  completely 
generated  at  the  limit  of  the  projection  in  the  conscious 
human  psyche,  potentially  male. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Ante-focal  Procession.  The  anal- 
ysis is  negated.  The  spirit  of  the  Divine  Psyche  descend- 
ing homes  himself  in  the  human  psyche  and  energetically 
guides  him  through  the  first  human  psychosic  procession 
(already  reflected)  up  to  the  focal  point.  In  this 
upward  passage  Adam  progressively  appropriated  the  six 
words  of  the  Divine  Psyche  to  man.  And  achieved  a  trinal 
self-consciousness:  (1)  The  conjugal  consciousness;  (2)  the 
consciousness  of  himself  as  the  creature  of  the  Divine  Psyche, 
and  (3)  the  consciousness  of  himself  as  the  potential  Lord  of 
nature. 

The  Synthesis :  The  Post-focal  Procession.  The  Divine 
Ps3'che  leads  Adam  into  the  ethical  procession,  which  hypo- 
thetically  he  successfully  achieves  and  the  pneumatically 
transformed  Son  of  God  communicates  to  him  because  of  his 
obedience  Divine  Psychical  being.  Adam  becomes  a  son  of 
God,  and  is,  therefore,  lifted  up  into  a  higher  community  of 
being  and  of  fellowship  with  God,  through  the  mediation  of 
the  eternally  begotten  Son.  The  Synthesis  is  complete. 
Adam  had  his  immediate  source  of  being  in  the  Divine  Psyche 
and  was  raised  up  again  by  regeneration  into  the  Divine 
Psychic  being.  But  Adam  had  his  ultimate  source  of  being 
in  God  the  self-conscious  Pneuma ;  and  we  shall  see,  in  tracing 
the  history  of  hypothetically  obedient  Adam  that  he  is  finally 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.        43 

by  a  higher  regeneration  raised  again  into  pneumatical  being. 
The  Synthesis  is  now  complete. 

THE  OBJECTIVE  PROGRESSION. 
THE  GENERATION  OF  THE  ADAMIC  BODY. 

21.  Formal  Process: 

(1)  The  Thesis:  Nature,  the  product  of  the  objective 
progression  of  the  first  Divine  Psychical  procession  is  posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  posited  product,  nature,  is 
negated.  The  Divine  Psyche  in  the  objective  procession  lays 
hold  upon  nature  and  lifts  it  up  to  and  through  the  focal 
point  to  the  limit  set  by  the  co-ordinate  subjective  progres- 
sion, where  it  counterparts  its  co-product,  the  human  psyche. 
This  the  analysis.  Here  the  male  and  female  actualize  their 
physical  separation,  but  are  not  yet  psychically  differentiated 
in  sex.  The  psyche  as  the  product  of  the  subjective  pro- 
gression is  masculine  and  united  with  Adam's  body.  Eve 
must  await  the  gift  of  the  feminine  psyche. 

(3)  The  Synthesis :  The  analysis  is  negated.  The  human 
bod}^  is  placed  in  the  arms  of  "Mother  Earth"  and  is  sustained 
and  nourished  at  her  opulent  breasts.  The  analysis,  while 
overcome,  is  preserved — the  earth  belongs  to  the  second  realm 
of  existence ;  the  human  body  to  the  third  and  highest  realm 
of  existence.  The  human  body  is  not,  therefore,  properly 
speaking,  a  microcosm,  but,  in  so  far  as  it  counterparts 
nature,  is  a  transfigured  sublimated  microcosm.  But  if,  on 
the  one  hand,  the  human  soma  is  nature  upwardly  trans- 
formed, it  is,  on  the  other  hand,  the  human  psyche  down- 
wardly transformed — if  it  is  nature  raised  into  the  third 
realm  of  existence  it  is  the  human  psyche  lowered  into  the 
highest  realm  of  existence — it  (the  human  soma)  is  one  order 
of  existence  higher  than  the  mere  microcosm  transfigured. 
The  human  soma  was,  therefore,  not  created  a  mere  natural 
animal. 


44        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

THE  PONTAL  PSYCHOSIS. 

22.  The  Formal  Process: 

( 1 )  The  Thesis  :  The  Divine  Psyche  with  an  ethically  con- 
secrated will  is  posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  posited  estate  of  the  Divine 
Psyche  is  negated.  In  loyal  obedience  the  Divine  Psyche 
wills  the  Divine  Will  and  the  two  streams  of  energy — the  one 
positive  and  subjective,  the  other  negative  and  objective — flow 
from  Him.  The  subjective  stream  of  energy  generates  the 
Adamic  psyche,  the  objective  creates  the  human  soma.  This 
the  analysis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  negated;  the  subjec- 
tive and  objective  products — the  human  psyche  and  the 
human  body — are  united  without  fusion  in  the  first  man. 
"And  the  Lord  God  formed  man  of  the  dust  of  the  ground  and 
breathed  into  his  nostrils  the  breath  of  life ;  and  man  became 
a  living  soul." 

23.  The  Divine  Psyche's  self-subjection  to  the  will  of  the 
Father  conditioned  His  regeneration ;  he  received  as  the 
reward  of  his  loyalty  conscious  pneumatical  being. 

24.  By  the  creation  of  nature  the  Divine  Psyche  achieved 
an  objective  dominion  over  it;  in  the  reproductival  procession 
wherein  He  generates  the  human  soul  and  body  and  unites 
them  in  the  first  man,  Adam,  the  Divine  Psyche  secures  in  the 
soma  a  medium  of  communication  between  the  human  psyche 
and  nature.  The  Divine  Psyche  may  now  in  the  subjective 
progression  energize  the  human  psyche  and  in  the  objective 
progression  inspire  nature,  thus  lifting  it  into  the  Divine  mes- 
sage of  six  words  to  man.  The  Divine  Psyche  thus  energizes 
the  self-evolution  of  Adam  through  the  first  psychosic  proces- 
sion ;  nourishes  him  psychically  as  well  as  physically,  through 
the  mediation  of  nature ;  and  by  the  power  of  His  Spirit  co-or- 
dinates the  processes  of  nature  (the  cosmicoses)  with  the  alike 
immediately  ordered  processes  of  the  Adamic  psyche  and 
his    pneumatical    self-consciousness    and    self-differentiation 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.         45 

is  perfect  and  complete — one  God  in  three  persons,  Father, 
Son  and  Holy  Spirit.  Adam  instinctively  responsive  to  the 
energetic  guidance  of  the  Divine  Psyche,  has  infallibly  accom- 
plished his  passage  through  the  first  psychosic  procession, 
when  there  broke  on  him  the  vision  of  God  mediated  by  the 
Son.  And  the  Son  of  man  walked  with  God  in  simple  Edenic 
communion. 

25.  Man,  let  us  recall,  acquired,  in  his  first  proces- 
sion, dominion  over  his  sentient  body,  but  not  over  his 
reproductive  physical  organism.  The  next  achievement 
should  be  the  complete  dominion  over  the  reproductive 
propension  of  the  physical  man.  Not  having  been  regen- 
erated— that  is,  not  having  been  dowered  with  Divine 
Psychical  Being — Adam  is  not  yet  psychically  qualified 
to  reproduce  himself  in  offspring.  But  man's  physical 
organism  has  achieved  its  adolescence ;  that  is,  the  body's 
maturity  has  anticipated  that  of  the  incarnated  Psyche.  And 
this  fact  furnishes  the  Condition  of  Temptation.  The  Psyche 
in  the  completion  of  the  First  Procession  Geneceived  Nature, 
as  a  vast  Reproductive  System ;  and  Geneceived  himself  as 
possessing  a  body,  having  the  same  function.  The  idea  is 
thus  present  in  consciousness ;  let  the  Desire  be  upheaved  and 
the  war  between  the  flesh  and  the  soul  is  declared.  The 
appearance  of  the  woman  with  her  seductive  charm  begets  the 
Desire.  Normally,  this  Desire  of  the  flesh  is  upheaved  not  to 
be  validated,  but,  on  the  contrary,  to  be  Negated,  thus  estab- 
lishing the  everlasting  dominion  of  the  Psyche  over  his  body 
and  at  the  same  time  securing  the  Psyche's  eternal  self- 
orientation  with  reference  to  the  Divine  Psyche.  Lest  the 
human  psyche  should  be  swept,  without  deliberation,  into  the 
commission  of  this  fatal  sin,  he  is  duly  forewarned;  for  God 
had  said,  "But  of  the  tree  of  the  knowledge  of  good  and  evil, 
thou  shalt  not  eat  of  it ;  for  in  the  day  that  thou  eatest  thereof 
thou  shalt  surely  die."  If  man  is  to  be  lifted  by  psychical 
regeneration  into  community  of  being  and  full  fellowship  with 
the   Divine   Psyche,   he   must   effect   a   triumphant   passage 


46        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

through  the  Ethical  Psychosis  (3'et  to  be  Reflected),  else  he 
shall  suffer  the  eternally  necessary  penal  consequences  of  his 
disobedience.  In  the  interests  of  the  argument  of  this  vol- 
ume, we  are  to  assume  that  man  was  not  disobedient  unto  the 
Divine  Psj'che.  Thus  prepared,  let  us  Reflect  the  Fourth 
Procession  of  the  Divine  Psyche,  leaving  the  Second  or  ethical 
procession  of  the  human  psyche  for  later  explication. 

26.  The  Formal  Process: 

( 1 )  The  Thesis :  The  Divine  Psyche  and  the  Human 
Psyche  (at  the  second  Focal  Point)  in  simple,  undeliberated 
(on  the  part  of  human  psyche)  union — is  posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Posited  Estate  of  simple  unity  is 
Negated  by  the  Divine  Psyche — from  whom  issues  the  Com- 
mand, "But  of  the  tree  of  the  knowledge  of  good  and  evil, 
thou  shalt  not  eat  of  it."  Each  is  conscious  of  himself  as 
separated  from  the  other.  The  Divine  Psyche  is  conscious 
of  himself  as  rightful  Lord  over  the  human  psyche  and  yearns 
to  lift  the  human  son  into  community  of  being  with  himself. 
The  human  psyche  is  conscious  of  his  individual  severalty  and 
personal  freedom.      This  the  Analysis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  mutually  Negated  by 
the  human  and  the  Divine  Psyche.  The  human  psyche  (after 
deliberation)  freely  determines  to  obey  the  Divine  Psyche  and 
Negates  the  "Desire  of  the  Flesh ;"  and  the  Divine  Psyche 
thereupon  imparts  Divine  Psychical  Life  to  the  human  psyche. 
And  the  latter  enjoys  community  of  being  and  filial  fellow- 
ship with  the  former.  And  this  completes  the  Fourth  Divine 
Psychosic  Procession. 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.        47 

THE  FIRST  PROCESSION  OF  THE  DIVINE  PSYCHE. 

THE  CREATIVAL  PSYCHOSIS  REFLECTED 
IN  ORDERLY  DETAIL. 

1.  To  reflect  this  procession  it  is  only  necessary  to  keep  in 
mind  the  parallehsms  and  the  contrasts  between  it  and  the 
first  procession  of  the  Adamic  Psyche.  The  objective  pro- 
gression of  the  former  is  creative  and  its  orderly  products  an 
advancing  scale  of  creatures,  while  objective  progression  of 
the  latter  is  recreative  and  its  orderly  products  a  rising  scale 
of  cognitions.  Likewise  the  subjective  progression  of  the 
former  is  self-evolutional  and  its  orderly  products  is  the 
advancing  achievement  of  gradial  self-differentiation  into 
two  reciprocal  persons  and  the  posse  of  the  third  person ; 
while  the  subjective  progression  of  the  latter  is  also  self- 
evolutional,  but  its  products  the  advancing  achievement  of 
gradial  self-differentiation  into  two  reciprocal  faculties  and 
the  posse  of  the  third  faculty.  The  subjective  progression 
of  the  Divine  Psychosic  procession  evolves  the  Divine  Psyche 
into  two  persons,  the  one  male  and  the  other  female  and  the 
posse  of  the  Son ;  the  like  subjective  progression  of  the  human 
psychosic  procession  evolves  the  Adamic  Psyche  into  two 
faculties,  the  intellect  and  the  feeling  and  the  real  or  eth- 
ical will  in  posse.  The  intellect  of  the  one  realm  of  being 
corresponds  to  the  male  of  the  higher  realm,  the  feeling  of  the 
lower  realm  to  the  female  of  the  higher,  and  the  actualized 
will  (the  ethical  will  in  posse)  of  the  one  to  the  potential  son 
of  the  other.  That  is  to  say,  that  in  the  generation  of  the 
Adamic  Psyche  the  male  person  of  the  Divine  Psyche  is  down- 
wardly transformed  into  the  human  psychical  intellect,  the 
female  person  into  the  feeling  and  the  son  in  posse  into  the 
will  (in  posse)  ;  and  these  wait  an  upward  metamorphosis  in 
the  second  or  ethical  psychosis. 


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48        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

THE  DIVINE  PSYCHE'S  PRIMORDIAL  PSYCHOSIS. 

2.  The  Formal  Process : 

( 1 )  The  Thesis :  The  Divine  Psyche  in  his  primal  or  con- 
scious estate  is  posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  The  Posited  primal  estate  is  negated; 
the  Divine  Psyche  energized  from  above  and  instinctively 
responsive  to  its  energizings  negates  the  absolute  naught  and 
space  comes  into  existence,  the  primordial  creature.  In  the 
creatival  intuition  of  space  the  Divine  Psyche  cognizes  space 
as  outsidedness  and  self  as  insidedness. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  analysis  is  negated;  the  co-prod- 
ucts are  united  without  fusion  in  the  dual  intuition,  insided- 
ness— outsidedness.  The  Divine  Psyche  intuits  himself  as 
subjective,  with  reference  to  space  as  objective.  The  Divine 
Psyche  has  achieved  his  primordial  self-consciousness  and 
Nature  its  primordial  creature.  Now  both  the  subjective 
and  the  objective  fields  are  void  of  actualized  content  yet 
opulent  each  in  its  respective  potentialities. 

THE  DIVINE  PSYCHE'S  DEFINITIVAL  PSYCHOSIS. 

3.  The  Formal  Process : 

(1)  The  Theses:  The  Divine  Psyche's  and  Nature's 
Achieved  Orders  are  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analyses:  The  posited  orders  are  negated — the 
one  in  the  subjective  process,  the  other  in  the  objective  proc- 
ess ;  the  Divine  Psyche  energized  from  above  negates  space 
and  in  the  negation  of  it  negates  himself.  He  projects  the 
material  cosmos  (matter)  into  space,  thereby  negating  it; 
and  in  energizing  the  projection  he  upheaved  into  conscious- 
ness the  energizing  side  of  his  being.     This  the  dual  analysis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  two  analyses  are  each  negated; 
the  Divine  Psyche  withdraws  his  creatival  energy  from  the 
material  cosmos  and  space  flows  in  penetrating  and  embracing 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.        49 

it — and  in  consciousness  he  recovers  the  energizing  side  of 
himself  to  himself.     This  the  dual  synthesis. 

( 4 )  The  Pontal  Pneumaticosic  Procession,  which  originated 
and  sustained  the  Divine  Polar  Psychoses,  completes  itself 
in  uniting  without  fusion  the  co-products  and  thus  grounds 
the  Divine  Psyche's  second  order  of  self-consciousness. 

THE  DIVINE  PSYCHE'S  ANALYTICAL  PSYCHOSIS. 

4.  The  Formal  Process : 

( 1 )  The  Theses :  The  Divine  Psyche's  and  Nature's  last 
achieved  orders  of  being  are  posited. 

(2)  The  Analyses:  The  two  posited  orders  are  negated — 
the  one  in  subjective  process,  the  other  in  objective  process; 
the  Divine  Psyche  in  the  objective  process  negates  matter 
and  in  negating  matter  negates  himself ;  he  negates  matter  by 
creatively  transforming  it  into  the  primordial,  protoplasmic 
or  fissional  life.  And  in  the  negation  of  matter — the  creation 
of  the  first  order  of  life — he  upheaves  himself  into  conscious- 
ness and  thus  perceives  himself  as  the  cognitive  agent  of  the 
creative  process. 

(3)  The  Synthesis :  The  analyses  are  respectively  negated ; 
the  created  life  is  united  without  fusion  with  the  earth  on 
which  it  depends  for  nourishment.  This  the  objective  syn- 
thesis. And  on  the  subjective  side,  the  upheaved  agent  is 
united  without  fusion  with  the  previously  achieved  continent 
of  being. 

(4)  The  Pontal  procession  having  energized  and  sustained 
the  polar  psychoses  unites  without  fusion  the  co-products  and 
thus  grounds  the  Divine  Psyche's  third  order  of  self-con- 
sciousness ;  that  is,  relates  him  in  consciousness  with  his  entire 
achieved  continent  of  being  and  through  it  with  the  entire 
achieved  objective  continent. 


50        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

THE  DIVINE  PSYCHE'S  ABSTRACTIVAL 
PSYCHOSIS. 

5.  The  Formal  Process: 

(1)  The  Theses:  The  Divine  Psyche's  and  Nature's 
achieved  orders  of  being  are  posited. 

(2)  The  Analyses:  The  posited  orders  are  respectively 
negated — the  one  in  the  subjective  process,  the  other  in  the 
objective  process.  The  Divine  Psyche  in  the  objective  proc- 
ess negates  fissional  life,  creatively  transforming  it  into  genv 
mational  life  and  in  the  creative  negation  of  unicellular  life, 
he  subjectively  negates  himself;  that  is,  he  upheaves  into  the 
field  of  consciousness  an  agent  that  provokes  his  creative 
thought  and  energizes  its  projection  in  creatural  life.  In 
negating  himself  in  the  upheaval  of  his  co-agent  he  transforms 
himself  into  a  male  person  in  posse  and  his  co-agent  achieves 
feminine  potentiality.      This  the  dual  analysis. 

(3)  The  Syntheses :  The  analyses  are  respectively  negated. 
The  gemmational  creature  is  related  back  to  the  fissional  life, 
or  superimposed  upon  it.  This  the  objective  sjui thesis.  On 
the  subjective  side  the  upheaved  co-agent  is  united  to  the  pre- 
viously achieved  continent  of  being.  This  the  subjective 
synthesis. 

6.  The  Pontal  procession  having  originated  and  sustained 
the  polar  psychoses  completes  itself  in  uniting  the  achieved 
continental  co-products,  which  thus  grounds  the  fourth  order 
of  the  Divine  Psyche's  self-consciousness. 

THE  DIVINE  PSYCHE'S  DIFFERENTIAL 
PSYCHOSIS. 

7.  (1)  The  Thesis :  The  Divine  Psyche's  and  Nature's  last 
achieved  products  are  posited. 

(2)  The  Analyses:  The  posited  products  are  respectively 
negated;  the  one  in  the  subjective  process,  the  other  in  the 
objective  process.      The  Divine  Psyche  in  the  objective  proc- 


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ess  negates  gemmational  life,  creatively  transforming  it  into 
bi-sexual  life.  In  the  subjective  process  he  calls  the  poten- 
tially feminine  agent  into  conspiring  activity  with  himself 
and  gets  a  ready  response.  The  potentially  masculine  and 
feminine  agents  suffer  a  further  sexual  differentiation.  This 
the  subjective  analysis  which  completes  the  dual  analysis. 

(3)  The  Syntheses :  The  analyses  are  respectively  negated. 
The  bi-sexual  creature  is  related  back  to  the  gemmational  life 
or  superimposed  immediately  upon  it  and  mediately  upon  the 
lower  orders  of  Nature.  This  the  objective  synthesis.  In 
the  subjective  synthesis  the  two  persons  of  the  Divine  Psyche 
are  brought  into  closer  unity. 

8.  The  Pontal  procession  having  originated  and  sustained 
the  polar  psychoses  completes  itself  in  uniting  without  fusion 
the  co-products,  thus  grounding  the  fifth  order  of  the  Divine 
Psyche's  self-consciousness. 

THE  DIVINE  PSYCHE'S  DIATHETICAL  PSYCHOSIS. 

9.  The  Formal  Procession : 

(1)  The  Theses:  The  Divine  Psyche's  and  Nature's  last 
achieved  products  are  posited. 

(2)  The  Analyses:  The  posited  products  are  respectively 
negated.  The  Divine  Psyche  in  the  objective  process  negates 
bi-sexual  life,  thereby  creatively  transforming  it  into  sexual 
life.  This  the  objective  analysis.  In  the  subjective  process, 
the  Divine  Psyche  calls  and  compels  the  reluctant  emotional 
agent  into  a  conspiring  activity  and  the  two  persons  of  the 
dual  Divine  Psyche  achieve  a  further  sexual  differentiation, 
and  the  son  in  posse  is  brought  up  to  his  highest  order  of 
potence.      This  the  subjective  analysis. 

(3)  The  Syntheses:  The  analyses  are  each  negated;  in  the 
objective  process  the  sexual  life  is  related  back  to  the  bi-sexual 
life  or  superimposed  upon  it.  The  highest  animal  sexual  life 
— male  and  female — is  a  true  microcosm.  On  the  subjective 
side  the  sexual  differentiation  is  overcome  and  yet  preserved 


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by  the  perfect  reciprocity  of  the  two  persons  of  the  Divine 
Psyche.     This  completes  the  dual  synthesis. 

10.  The  Pontal  procession  having  originated  and  energized 
the  polar  psychoses  completes  itself  in  uniting  without  fusion 
the  co-products  and  thus  grounds  the  Divine  Psyche's  sixth 
order  of  self-consciousness. 

11.  The  first  Divine  Psychosic  procession  is  completed  and 
the  Divine  Psyche  now  ethically  self-conscious  is  led  by  the 
Holy  Spirit  into  the  ethical  psychosis ;  and  the  Divine  Psyche 
loyally  obedient  unto  God  generates  Adam  (male  and  female), 
the  antithetical  (reproductival)  psychosis. 

12.  The  objective  progressions  of  the  first  Divine  Psychosic 
procession  is  a  perfect  counterpart  or  symbol,  order  for 
order,  of  the  subjective  progression;  we  may  in  inference 
ascend  from  the  symbol  to  that  which  is  symbolized,  or  vice 
versa.  The  orderly  creatural  self-separation  with  respect  to 
sex  proceeds  pari  passu  with  the  Divine  Psj^che's  sexual  self- 
differentiation.  The  actual  separation  of  the  creature  into 
male  and  female  the  last  and  the  highest  product  of  the 
objective  progression  is  a  faithful  symbol  of  the  self-separa- 
tion (in  subjective  progression)  of  the  Divine  Psyche  into 
two  persons,  the  one  male,  the  other  female.  Again  as  the 
separation  progressively  widens  in  the  two  cognate  progres- 
sions, the  corresponding  syntheses  or  unions  grow  stronger. 
This  is  the  prophecy  of  a  separation  that  shall  be  overcome 
in  an  indissoluble  union.  But  this  ultimate  separation  and 
indissoluble  union  is  not  to  be  achieved  in  the  realm  of  nature. 
The  creatival  procession  completes  itself  in  the  diathetical 
psychosis ;  and  the  male  and  the  female  are  reciprocals.  In 
the  highest  order  of  nature's  life  unreasoning  leadership 
belongs  of  natural  right  to  the  male  and  instinctive  obedience 
and  dependence  to  the  female.  In  man  the  product  of  the 
next  higher  Divine  Psychosic  order  (the  antithetical),  the 
separation  between  male  and  female  has  attained  its  major 
limit ;  and  the  synthesis  an  indissoluble  union.      Here  the  male 


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retains  his  primacy,  but  later  rational  and  ethical  freedom 
belongs  of  inalienable  right  to  the  female. 

13.  As  intellect,  feeling,  and  will  are  the  subjective  products 
of  the  first  human  psychosic  procession,  and  male,  female,  and 
potential  son  the  subjective  products  of  the  first  Divine 
Psychosic  procession,  it  may  be  infallibly  inferred  that  the 
former  procession  is  but  a  lower  form  of  the  reproductival 
psychosis.  Furthermore,  the  second  or  reproductival  pro- 
cession of  the  human  psyche  transforms  the  intellect,  the  feel- 
ing, and  the  will  respectively  into  the  male,  the  female,  and  the 
son.  Thought,  feeling,  and  will  are  in  this  sense  conceived, 
passed  through  the  gestational  process  and,  in  the  act  of  par- 
turition, are  severally  born.  It  was  a  profound  insight  of 
Socrates  that  prompted  him  to  speak  of  himself,  the  teacher, 
as  an  obstetrician. 

14.  All  Nature  and  every  realm  of  unfallen  being  looks 
forward  to  reproduction  as  its  chief  objective  end.  This 
great  fact  needs  to  be  well  considered,  to  be  long  and  earnestly 
pondered  by  the  socius  as  well  as  by  the  individual  until  it 
shall  sink  down  below  the  conscious  springs  of  action. 

15.  When  we  know  Nature  to  be  a  vast  reproductival  sys- 
tem, does  it  not  on  its  face  seem  probable  that  Nature  in  its 
entirety  shall,  when  regenerated,  reproduce  itself  in  another 
cosmos  ? 

AN  OUTLINE  REFLECTION  OF  THE  FIRST  PRO- 
CESSION OF  THE  PNEUMATICOSIS  AND  OF 
THE  CORRESPONDING  PROCESSION  OF  THE 
DIVINE  PHYCHOSIS. 

1.  The  First  Procession.  The  Divine  Psyche  achieves  in 
his  passage  through  this  procession  of  six  orders,  completing 
itself  in  the  diathetical,  his  trinal  self-consciousness.  The 
first  terminated  upon  God ;  the  second,  on  the  creature  nature ; 
and  the  third  reciprocally  on  the  sexually  differentiated 
selves.    Now,  the  consciousness  of  their  sexual  complementary 


54.         THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

severalty  begat  the  idea  of  a  son  who  should  be  exalted  above 
Nature. 

2.  Likewise  tlie  conscious  Pneuma  in  His  passage  through 
this  procession  achieves  his  trinal  self-consciousness.  The 
first  terminated  on  His  own  being ;  the  second,  reciprocally  on 
His  sexually  differentiated  being  (selves),  and  the  third  on 
the  absolute  negative  of  pneumatical  being — the  absolute 
naught.  Now  the  sexual  self-consciousness  begat  the  idea  of 
the  Son  who  should  antithetically  negate  the  absolute  naught, 

3.  The  Second  Procession.  God,  the  self-sexually  differ- 
entiated Pneuma,  generates  the  son,  the  Divine  Psyche  in  the 
subjective  progression,  and  in  the  objective  progression  there 
arose  in  the  Divine  consciousness  the  six  ideas  or  images  of 
the  uncreated  orders  of  Nature  that  corresponded,  order  for 
order,  with  the  six  orders  of  generated  being  in  the  Divine 
Psyche. 

4.  The  Divine  Psyche,  in  the  first  procession,  objective 
progression,  creates  the  six  orders  of  Nature,  as  already 
reflected,  after  the  patterns  letj  down  from  above.  That  is, 
the  Divine  Psyche,  energized  by  the  Holy  Spirit  revealing  the 
ordered  "ideas"  to  him,  obediently  gave  properly  ordered  con- 
crete expression  to  the  Heavenly  patterns.  "In  the  begin- 
ning Eloihim  (plural,  the  Gods)  created  the  heavens  and  the 
earth." 

5.  The  correspondence  between  the  second  procession  of 
the  Divine  psychosis  and  the  second  procession  of  the  Pneuma- 
ticosis  is  made  so  obvious  in  the  previous  reflections  of  them, 
that  they  need  not  be  re-presented.  God  in  the  plenitude  of 
His  love  is  moved  to  generate  another  son  in  a  lower  realm  of 
being  who  should  meet  and  unite  with  Nature  uplifted  into  the 
third  realm  of  existence  and  who  should  therefore  have  domin- 
ion over  all  creatural  existence  to  the  end  that  the  creature 
should  be  raised  progressively  into  the  realms  of  being  as  pro- 
jected realms  of  being  shall  by  regeneration  be  lifted  from 
lower  to  higher  realms. 


PART  III. 

THE  REGENERATE  HUMAN 
PSYCHOLOGY 

1,  The  First  Procession  of  the  Human  Psychosis  has 
already  been  reflected.  In  the  achievement  of  that  Proces- 
sion, the  human  psyche,  in  its  objective  Progression,  emerging 
out  of  Nature,  rose  in  transcendence  above  it ;  and  in  its  sub- 
jective Progression,  he  rose  into  a  like  conscious  transcend- 
ence over  his  own  body. 

2.  Now,  follows  in  logical  sequence  the  Visional  Psychosis, 
or  the  Primordial  Psychosis  of  the  Second  Psychosic  Pro- 
cession, He,  the  Human  Psyche,  heretofore  communicating 
with  the  Divine  Psyche  through  the  medium  of  Divinely 
inspired  Nature  now  communes  face  to  face  with  the  self- 
revealed,  eternally  begotten  Son  of  God.  Now,  the  Primordial 
(Visional)  Psychosis  of  this  Procession  achieves  its  co-prod- 
ucts without  processes ;  that  is,  its  co-products  are  Intuitions. 
The  objective  product  is  the  Intuition  of  the  Divine  Psyche; 
the  subjective  product  the  Intuition  of  self.  The  Intuition 
of  the  Son  of  God  is  trinal — Adam  intuits  the  Son  as  related 
to  the  Divine  Trinity,  as  related  to  himself  (Adam),  and  as 
creatively  related  to  Nature.  So  also  is  Adam's  intuition  of 
himself  trinal — he  intuits  himself  as  related  to  the  Divine 
Psyche,  as  related  to  Eve  and  as  transcendently  related  to 
Nature. 

The  Son  is  intuited  as  "the  high  calling  of  God"  to  Man. 
Now,  Adam  as  human  psychical  being,  is  the  antithetical 
negative  of  Filial  Divine  Psychical  being  raised  to  the  second 
focal  point  and  as  such  seeks  his  higher  end  or  more  real  sub- 
jectivity in  the  Divine  Psyche  and  the  call  is  inwardly  ener- 
gized by  the  Holy  Spirit.  But  on  the  other  hand  Adam 
instinctively  seeks  his  lower  end  or  objectivity  in  offspring, 
and  Nature  as  a  reproductival  system  communicates  the  idea 
and  Eve  awakens  the  desire. 


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To  actualize  his  potential  subjectivity  is  to  reproduce  in 
himself  Divine  Psychical  being,  while  to  actualize  his  potential 
objectivity  is  to  reproduce  himself  in  offspring.  Adam  hears 
two  conflicting  calls,  namely:  (1)  The  Divine  call  to  repro- 
duce in  triune  Man  the  Divine  Psyche,  and  (2)  Nature's  call, 
energized  by  Eve,  to  reproduce  himself  in  offspring.  Now, 
strange  as  it  may  seem,  Adam  has  not  in  and  of  himself  the 
ability  to  do  either.  He  unaided  cannot  reproduce  in  himself 
Divine  Psychical  being.  If  he  shall  acquire  Divine  Psychical 
being  it  must  of  necessity  come  by  impartation  from  above,  he 
must  be  regenerated,  and  that  is  conditioned  on  obedience. 
On  the  other  hand  he  cannot  legitimately  reproduce  himself 
in  offspring.  The  Adamic  Psyche  was  generated  by  the 
Divine  Psyche  and  normal  progeneration  must  await  the 
regeneration  of  Adam  and  Eve.  And  if  Adam  does  prema- 
turely and  therefore  abnormally  enter  the  reproductival 
psychosis,  he  shall  be  able  to  propagate  his  psychical  self 
(and  Soma)  only  by  a  natural  fission  of  his  soul  (and  body) 
which  would  entail  death  on  himself  and  offspring.  It 
was  shown  that  created  Nature  was  lifted  one  realm  in  the 
body  of  man  to  meet  and  unite  with  the  lowered  realm  of  being 
in  the  human  psyche.  The  lowered  being  there  reached,  in  the 
Divine  plan,  its  lowest  estate.  There  the  projected  life  was 
to  be  arrested  in  its  descent  and  turned  about  that  it  might 
with  Divine  Assistance  rise  to  its  eternal  source  in  the  Pneu- 
matical  Being.  But  if  it  is  admitted  that  man  cannot  repro- 
duce in  himself  Divine  Psychical  being  nor  reproduce  himself 
in  a  human  son — if  he  is  unable  to  obey  the  positive  Divine 
vocation  and  equally  unable  normally  to  validate  the  call  of 
Nature — is  not  all  further  action  forestalled  and  his  upward 
progress  estopped?  No,  for  here  are  the  parting  of  the 
ways.  The  Divine  vocation  is  a  Normal  Call,  a  call  to  remain 
and  continue  in  the  Normal  Path  of  Progress;  the  call  of 
Nature  is  an  Abnormal  Call,  a  call  to  depart  from  the  Normal 
Path  of  Progress  and  take  an  abnormal  Path.  A  call  issued 
only   to   be   Negated.      Then   the   Positive   Divine   vocation 


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involves  the  Prohibition  or  Negation  of  Nature's  call ;  and  the 
rejection  by  man  of  Nature's  call,  which  is  the  wrong  or 
abnormal  objective  alternative,  involves  his  deliberate  choice 
of  the  divine  vocation,  which  is  the  right  or  normal  alterna- 
tive. So  that  the  beautiful  Edenic  Parable  (not  myth)  prop- 
erly represents  the  Divine  Command  as  Negative  in  form. 
"But  of  the  tree  of  the  knowledge  of  good  and  evil,  thou 
shalt  not  eat  of  it."  Man's  beautiful  moral  childhood  is  now 
to  be  transcended.  He  is  now  under  divine  guidance  to  be 
led  into  the  Ethical  Psychosis ;  and  we  assume  that  he  is  to 
effect  a  happy  passage  through  his  temptation. 

3.  The  Formal  Ethical  Psychosis : 

(1)  The  Thesis:  "Shall  I  (Adam)  say  Yes  (to  the  Divine 
Psyche) ? 

(2)  The  Analysis — The  Antefocal  Process:  "If  I  do  not 
say  Yes,  I  must  say  Nothing  or  I  must  say  No." 

The  Postfocal  Process :  "But  I  cannot  say  Nothing,  there- 
fore I  shall  have  to  say  No"  (to  the  Divine  Psyche). 

(3)  The  Synthesis — The  Antefocal  Process:  But  I  shall 
not  say  No — therefore  I  must  say  "Nothing"  or  I  must  say 
"Yes." 

The  Postfocal  Process:  But  again  I  cannot  say  Nothing; 
therefore  I  shall  and  do  say  "Yes." 

4.  The  Simple  "Yes"  of  the  Thesis  is  the  heretofore  unde- 
liberated  habitual  obedience  of  the  past  Procession  now  for 
the  first  time  questioned. 

5.  The  "I"  cannot  say  "NotJiing"  (to  God),  is  the  first 
expression  of  man's  newly  achieved  Consciousness  of  himself 
as  a  moral  Agent ;  and  this  establishes  two  fundamental 
truths :  ( 1 )  That  the  conscience  is  not  the  product  of  evolu- 
tion, but  an  original  endowment  of  the  human  soul,  function- 
ing implicity  in  the  last  Procession  and  now  explicitly  in  this, 
and  (2)  that  the  conscience  is  the  divinely  appointed  master 
of  the  human  will.  The  "Freedom  of  the  Will"  is  a  freedom 
achieved  only  in  obedience  to  a  divinely  illuminated  conscience. 


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6.  Therefore  I  have  to  say  "No"  carries  the  Negative 
Process  below  zero.  The  Negative  Analytical  Process  is  thus 
broken  up  into  two  processes ;  an  ante-focal  and  a  post-focal 
process ;  and  this  is  true  of  the  Positive  Synthetical  Process, 
also.  Thus  the  implicit  Element  in  the  Antithetical  Psy- 
chosis becomes  explicit  in  the  Ethical  Psychosis  and  therein 
evidences  the  logical  sequence  of  the  Ethical  on  the  Antitheti- 
cal Psychosis. 

7.  "But  I  shall  not  say  'No ;'  therefore  I  must  say  'Noth- 
ing' or  'Yes,'  "  brings  the  deliberating  Psyche  to  the  second 
focus ;  and  therein  reproduces  the  attitude  of  the  Psyche  to 
God  that  characterized  the  childlike,  unreasoned,  habitual 
obedience  of  man  in  the  First  Procession.  But  because  Man 
has  become  conscious  of  his  own  individualit}^,  a  return  to  the 
outgrown  estate  of  spontaneous  obedience  is  here  again  impos- 
sible ;  nor  can  he  defy  God.  In  the  consciousness  that  he  had 
forever  passed  his  moral  childhood,  and  that  he  could  not  with 
impunity  defy  God,  man  Negates  finally  the  lower  alternative, 
"But  I  can  not  say  Nothing"  (to  God). 

8.  In  the  final  "therefore  I  shall  and  do  say  Yes"  to  God, 
Adam  affirms  and  acknowledges  the  sovereign  right  of  God  "to 
rule  over  him ;"  and  God  accepts  his  obedient  servant  and 
exalts  him  by  Divine  Psychical  regeneration. 

9.  The  affirmation  of  God's  sovereignty  involves  man's 
self-Negation;  and  this  self-Negation  expresses  our  "first 
father's"  free  and  full  self-subjection  to  the  Will  of  God,  and 
thus  conditions  his  Divine  Psychical  regeneration. 

10.  Now  in  the  Ethical  Psychosis  (as  reflected  above)  the 
rejection  (or  acceptance)  of  the  lower  objective  alternative  is 
an  implicit  functional  process  and  may  be  presented  as  below 
in  accompaniment  with  the  explicit  process. 

11.  The  Formal  Dual  Ethical  Psychosis  : 

(1)  The  Thesis:  "Shall  I  say  Yes  (to  God)  and  No  (to 
Nature),  (whose  call  is  voiced  by  the  woman)  ?" 


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(2)  The  Analysis:  Ante-focal.  "If  I  do  not  say  Yes  (to 
God)  and  No  (to  nature),  I  must  say  Nothing  or  No  (to 
God)  and  Nothing  or  Yes  (to  Nature)," 

Post-focal:  "But  if  1  can  not  say  'Nothing'  (to  God)  and 
can  not  say  'Nothing'  (to  Nature),  then  I  should  have  to  say 
'No'  to  God  and  'Yes'  (to  Nature)." 

(3)  The  Synthesis — Ante-focal:  "But  I  shall  not  say 
'No'  (to  God)  nor  'Yes'  (to  Nature),  therefore  I  shall  have 
to  say  'Nothing'  or  'Yes'  (to  God)  and  'Nothing'  or  'No'  (to 
Nature)." 

Post-focal:  "But  I  can  not  say  'Nothing'  (to  God),  nor 
can  I  say  'Nothing'  (to  Nature),  therefore  I  shall  and  do  say 
'Yes'  (to  God)  and  'No'  (to  Nature)." 

12.   Interpretation  of  the  above  Ps3^chosis : 

(1)  Shall  I  say  "Yes"  (to  God,  whose  vocation  is  embod- 
ied in  the  Divine  Psyche)  and  "No"  (to  Nature,  whose  call  is 
embodied  in  the  woman)  ?, — joins  the  moral  issue.  The  presence 
and  sexual  attraction  of  the  woman  has  awakened  in  the  phy- 
sical organism  of  the  man  the  instinctive  physical  impulse  to 
respond  to  the  invitation  of  the  woman  and  the  instinctive 
impulse  has  been  upheaved  into  the  psychical  consciousness  of 
the  man  as  "Desire."  The  man  hungers  and  thirsts  after  the 
righteousness  of  the  Son  of  God  and  desires  to  embrace  the 
woman.  The  Flesh  wars  against  the  Psyche  and  the  Psyche 
against  the  Flesh;  and  the  well  being  of  both  soul  and  body 
is  eternally  involved  in  the  issue. 

(2)  "If  I  do  not  say  'Yes'  (to  God)  and  'No'  (to  Nature), 
then  I  must  say  'Nothing'  or  'No'  (to  God)  and  'Nothing'  or 
*Yes'  (to  Nature)"  signifies  that  "I  must  say  Nothing"  to 
God,  which  is  to  ignore  Him,  or  "No"  to  Him,  which  is  to 
defy  Him;  and  "Nothing"  to  Nature,  which  is  to  yield 
spontaneously  and  instinctively  to  her  call,  or  "Yes"  to 
Nature,  which  is  deliberately  to  acknowledge  and  validate 
her  claim. 

(3)  In  the  Analytical  Process:  "But  I  can  not  say  Noth- 
ing to  God"  signifies  that  "I  have  transcended  the  sphere  of 


60        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

instinctive  psychical  action ;"  and  "I  can  not  say  'Nothing'  to 
Nature"  means  that  her  voice  can  not  be  thus  silenced. 

(4)  The  Analytical  Process — Post-focal  Step:  "Therefore 
I  should  have  to  say  'No'  to  God  and  'Yes'  to  Nature."  "The 
Fall  of  man,"  which  it  is  assumed  did  not  occur,  could  not  have 
taken  place  at  any  other  than  this  stage  in  the  Ethical  Psy- 
chosis. But  if  Adam,  contrary  to  our  hypothesis,  did  Fall ;  if 
he  did  say  "No"  to  God — then  he  deliberately  rejected  God 
that  He  should  rule  over  him,  and  accepted  Nature  that  she 
should  exercise  dominion  over  him.  He  denied  ultimate  Real- 
ity to  God  the  All-Real  and  violently  imputed  it  to  Nature, 
which  has  not  even  life  in  itself.  But  not  only  did  he  hyposta- 
size  objective  Nature,  but  he  also  validated  the  "Lusts  of  the 
Flesh."      So  that  Nature  became  his  god  and  Lust  his  master. 

(5)  The  Synthetical  Process — Post-focal  Step:  "There- 
fore I  shall  and  do  say  'Yes'  to  God  and  'No'  to  Nature." 
"I  do  say  'Yes'  to  God"  affirms  His  right  to  rule  over  him  and 
denies  to  himself  the  right  of  self-government.  And  Adam's 
loyal  Self-Negation  is  rewarded  of  God  by  the  communication 
to  him  of  Divine  Psychical  being  of  the  First  or  Conscious 
Estate  to  Eve  of  human  Psychical  being  and  to  the  Earth  of 
human  animistic  being  (Existence)  ;  and  the  three  co-prod- 
ucts are  united  without  fusion  as  soul  and  body. 

13.  Ph^'sical  sex  separation  was  achieved  in  the  divine  gen- 
eration of  the  human  body  (male  and  female)  ;  and  Psychical 
Sex  Separation  is  achieved  in  the  Regeneratival  Procession. 

And  Adam  now  enjoys  on  the  one  side  community  of  being 
with  the  Divine  Psyche  and  on  the  lower  side  community  of 
being  with  regenerate  Eve,  and,  through  Eve,  communication 
with  and  potential  dominion  over  Nature.  In  Adam's  Nega- 
tion of  his  sensual  Desire  he  gains  the  complete  mastery  of 
his  physical  reproductive  system.  For  the  "Lust  of  the 
Flesh"  was  upheaved  and  transformed  into  Psychical  Desire 
but  to  be  Negated,  and  that  eternally.  No  more  forever  shall 
the  reproductive  Desire  originate  below  in  the  flesh ;  but 
always  until  marriage  is  transcended  shall  it  originate  from 


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above — thus  transfiguring  and  sanctifying  the  reproductive 
function  of  the  human  body. 

14.  The  Ground  of  Adam's  Original  Peccability:  The 
Divine  Being  was  lowered  in  the  Divine  Psyche  and  the  Divine 
Psychical  being  was  lowered  in  the  first  human  Psyche — to 
meet  and  unite  with  ascending  Existence  (transformed  into 
the  first  human  body)  and  then  to  lift  and  further  transform 
it.  Now  neither  Nature  nor  the  body  of  the  human  Psyche 
has  in  itself  any  principle  of  levitation ;  but,  on  the  contrary, 
both  have  a  tendency  toward  Devolution.  Tfiis  downward 
gravitation  toward  the  absolute  Naught  out  of  which  it  was 
lifted  by  Divine  Might  is  a  centrifugal  tendency  from  its 
Author  and  exists  but  to  be  overcome,  or  Negated.  And  so, 
in  the  case  of  Adam,  this  fact  of  his  lower  or  existential  nature 
grounded  his  temptation.  The  one  possible  occasion  of  sin 
lay  in  his  physical  organism  through  the  Flesh,  as  we  have 
seen.  A  sensual  Desire  was  aroused  in  Adam's  Psychical 
being.  This  Desire  antagonized  the  promptings  of  his  con- 
science to  subject  himself  to  the  Divine  Will.  By  our 
hypothesis,  Adam  overcame  or  Negated  the  Desire  born  of 
the  Flesh  and  therein  subjected  his  body  under  his  Will. 

15.  And  Adam  now  regenerates  reciprocally  functions  in 
Trinal  Psychosis  with  the  Divine  Psyche,  so  that  he  actualizes 
his  implanted  potentialties  as  he  mediatorially  expresses  the 
Divine  Thought,  Feeling  and  Will.  Adam  now  actually  and 
consciously  "lives  and  moves  and  has  his  being  in  God,"  a  life 
within  a  life,  a  consciousness  within  a  consciousness,  even  as 
the  foetal  life  develops  within  the  mother-life.  And  the 
embraced  life  instead  of  losing  itself  in  the  larger  and  envel- 
oping life  finds  itself  in  enduring  freedom  of  thought,  affec- 
tion and  will.  Differentiation  of  man  from  his  maker  pro- 
ceeds pari  passu  with  his  Integration  with  Him. 

16.  Libertarianism  and  Necessitarianism  have  their  recon- 
ciling Principle  in  the  Negative  Freedom  of  the  original 
human  will.  Adam  in  the  Ethical  Psychosis  had  no  power 
to  will  a  positive  Good,  nor  was  he  required  to  do  so.     The 


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obligation  divinely  devolved  on  him  involved  on  his  part  the 
simple  Negation  of  Evil.  By  our  hypothesis  Adam  loyally 
triumphed  over  "the  Lust  of  the  Flesh ;"  and  in  his  successful 
passage  through  the  Ethical  Psychosis,  he  actualized  his 
Moral  Will  and  perfected  his  Self-Evolution  into  intellect, 
feeling  and  will — a  complete  trinity  in  unity,  functioning 
now  in  several  freedom  and  yet  in  harmonious  unit3^  And 
God,  because  of  his  obedience,  communicated  to  him  Divine 
Psychical  being,  thus  enabling  him  to  will  positive  Good  and 
determining  his  eternal  trend.  Adam  was  therein  raised  into 
an  impeccable  estate — an  estate  that  shall  safeguard  his 
offspring  against  the  possibility  of  a  Fall  and  Nature  against 
a  collapse. 

THE  REPRODUCTIVAL  PSYCHOSIS. 

1.  The  Ante-focal  and  the  Post-focal  Processions  implicit 
in  the  Antithetical  Psychosis  and  explicit  in  the  Ethical  Psy- 
chosis, thereby  justifying  the  sequence  of  the  latter  on  the 
former,  are  now  to  evince  a  new  modification,  which  deter- 
mines the  reproductival  to  be  the  next  in  order  of  sequence. 
The  respective  functions  of  the  intellect,  the  feeling  and  the 
will  are  here  to  be  discharged  respectively  by  the  father,  the 
mother,  the  son.  That  is  to  say,  the  intellect,  the  feeling  and 
the  will  are  each  to  be  personalized,  or  transformed  respec- 
tively into  the  human  father,  mother,  son.  (The  related 
functions  of  the  intellect,  the  feeling  and  the  will  find  here 
their  antitype  and  concrete. rationale.) 

2.  Pncumatical  Being  alone  can  generate  Divine  Psychical 
being;  Divine  Psychical  being  alone  can  generate  Human 
Psychical  being ;  and  regenerate  Human  Psychical  being  alone 
can  multiply  (or  progenerate)  normal  human  Psychical  being. 
Unregenerate  human  Psychical  being  can  multiply  itself  in 
offspring  only  by  a  divisional  or  fissional  process  (after  the 
manner  of  the  mere  creature)  which  involves  the  final  death 
of  parents  and  offspring. 


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3.  Marriage  is  actualized  only  in  the  Reproductival  Psy- 
chosis ;  and  the  Reproductival  Psychosis,  sequent  on  regenera- 
tion, is  normally  undertaken  only  in  obedience  to  the  Divine 
Command,  "Be  fruitful  and  multiply  and  replenish  the  earth, 
and  subdue  it."  Normal  Human  Reproduction  is,  therefore, 
a  distinctively  religious  function,  and  can  not  normally  origi- 
nate in  the  "Lust  of  the  Flesh."  Our  first  parents,  their  con- 
science illuminated  by  the  spirit  of  the  Son  of  God  and 
quickened  by  their  love  toward  Him,  joyfully  undertake  their 
holy  commission  to  co-operate  with  the  Most  High  in  the 
incarnation  of  the  eternally  begotten  Son  of  God  in  Man 
(the  triune  Man). 

4.  The  Human  Reproductival  Psychosis  is  energized  by 
the  Holy  Spirit  proceeding  from  God  the  Father  through  the 
Son  and  delivering  to  Adam  and  Eve  the  Divine  Command, 
"Be  fruitful  and  multiply."  It  is  the  office  of  the  Holy 
Spirit  to  quicken  the  consciences,  to  exalt  the  love  and  to  ener- 
gize the  co-functions  of  the  husband  and  wife.  Adam  at  this 
stage  is  altitudinally  a  trinity — body  (Soma),  human  psyche 
(soul),  and  Divine  Psyche  (spirit)  ;  and  each  of  the  lower 
realms  of  his  being  is  differentiated  into  male  and  female  and 
to  be  further  differentiated  into  a  complete  trinity — father, 
mother,  son.  The  Reproductival  Psychosis  must,  therefore, 
progressively  evolve  into  a  trinal  Psychosis — a  paternal, 
a  maternal  and  a  filial  Psychosis,  all  working  together  in  per- 
fect conspiracy.  The  better  to  explicate  these  closely  inter- 
woven self-activities,  they  are  as  far  as  possible  separated 
below  in  the  Conjugal  and  Parental  Psychoses.  In  the  one 
the  emphasis  is  placed  on  the  reciprocal  functions  of  the  first 
two  co-agents  as  husband  and  wife ;  in  the  other,  on  their 
parental  functions — that  is,  on  their  projection  of  themselves 
forth  in  a  son  and  finally  on  their  recovery  of  him  to  them- 
selves through  his  instinctively  and  then  freely  co-operating 
activity.  The  Projection  of  the  Son  falls  into  two  Proces- 
sions— the  Progeneratival  (or  conceptional)  and  the  Gesta- 


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tional ;  the  recovery  of  the  son  falls  also  into  two  Processions 
— the  educational  and  the  Legal.  The  Son's  response  thereto 
falls  into  two  corresponding  Processions — the  self-evolutional 
and  the  Moral.  The  first  two  make  a  great  Procession  dis- 
tinguished as  Recuperatival ;  the  second  two,  a  great  Pro- 
cession distinguished  as  Centripetal. 
5.  The  Conjugal  Procession: 

(1)  The  Thesis:  Adam  and  Eve  (regenerate)  in  simple 
Platonic  communion  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis:  Adam  and  Eve,  Divinely  energized, 
hear  the  Divine  Command,  "Be  fruitful  and  multiply  and 
replenish  the  earth."  They  Negate  in  idea  the  Posited  Pla- 
tonic estate ;  they  become  reciprocally  conscious  of  their  sex- 
ual difference  and  of  the  complementary  character  of  their 
differentiated  selves.  The  Desire  to  reproduce  themselves  in 
offspring  is  aroused  by  the  now  legitimated  thought.  This 
consciousness  of  their  complemental  severalty  is  the  Anal3'^sis. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Analysis  is  Negated;  they  func- 
tionally unite  and  the  twain  become  actually  one ;  they  are 
conjugated,  the  marriage  is  consummated.  The  Final  Pro- 
jectional  product  is  the  new  born  son.  The  progeneratival 
Procession  has  its  product  in  the  embryo  or  foetal  life ;  the 
Gestational  Procession  completes  itself  in  the  act  of  Parturi- 
tion. In  the  last  the  father  functions  mediately',  the  mother 
immediately ;  the  father  supports  the  mother,  the  mother  sus- 
tains and  completes  the  gestational  procession.  The  bond 
between  husband  and  wife  is  confirmed  and  exalted  by  the 
newly  achieved  Parental  tie. 

THE  PROJECTIVAL  PROCESSION. 

The  Human  Reproductival  Procession  is  a  symbol  of  the 
Procession  wherein  the  Divine  Psyche  Generates  Adam  and 
Eve,  and  they  (the  two  Processions)  reflect  light  upon  one 
another;  but  their  distinguishing  features  are  not  to  be  lost 
sight  of.  The  Divine  Psyche  is  the  Son  of  God  and  as  such 
Generates  human  life  and  his  Son  is  not  Adam,  but  rather  the 


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trinal  man — Adam,  Eve  and  the  human  Son  (the  human  race 
progenerate).  Adam  Divine  Psychically  regenerate  does 
not,  cannot  generate  his  son,  but  progenerates  him  by  self- 
multiplication. 

Bearing  these  differences  in  mind,  let  us  derive  the  Human 
Procession  from  the  Divine  Procession. 

The  Divine  Psyche  in  the  subjective  Progression  generated 
the  Human  Psyche  without  sexual  Differentiation  and  in  the 
Objective  Progression  the  human  body  differentiated  in  Sex 
(male  and  female).  The  Pontal  procession  united  the  sex- 
ually undifferentiated  Human  Psyche  with  the  male  body  and 
thus  left  Eve  without  human  Psychical  being  and  yet  of 
higher  being  than  the  mere  animal. 

Our  first  parents  must  then  in  order  to  exemplify  the  par- 
allelism Progenerate  human  Psychical  being  in  the  subjective 
Progression,  and  in  the  Objective  Progression  somatical  life; 
and  to  make  good  the  law  of  differential  advance  the  progen- 
erated  human  Psyche  must  be  sexually  differentiated  as  well 
as  its  physical  co-product.  That  is,  normal  human  repro- 
duction should  be  in  sexual  pairs  or  twins,  complete  counter- 
parts. 

Now,  the  First  Procession  of  the  Divine  Psyche  had  as  an 
end  subjective  and  objective  preparation  for  the  Generation 
of  Man. 

In  the  subjective  Progression  of  the  Creatival  Procession 
the  Divine  Psyche  achieved  Self-Consciousness ;  and  in  the 
objective  Progression  he  created  Nature.  His  self-Con- 
sciousness involved  sexual  self-differentiation  and  the  produc- 
tion of  the  Psychical  Filial  Potence  on  its  subjective  side,  and 
its  objective  side,  the  somatic  filial  potence.  Now  the  Divine 
Psychical  Adam  must  in  the  First  Procession  achieve  Self- 
Consciousness;  and  sexual  Differentiation  is  the  positive  ele- 
ment therein.  The  Regenerate  being  of  Adam  (in  this  Pro- 
cession) functions  in  the  Pontal  (Positive-Negative)  process; 
and  Eve  is  Divine  Psychically  polarized  or  regenerated — she 
becomes  the  opposite  pole  of  regenerate  Adam.      The  other 


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elements  of  his  Self-Consciousness  are  on  the  subjective  side 
the  Psvchical  Filial  Potence,  and  on  the  other  side  the 
Somatic  Filial  Potence  (human  anima). 

In  the  next  or  truly  projectional  procession  these  sexually 
differentiated  potences  are  projected  into  the  uterus  of  the 
mother,  where  the  sexual  opposites  meet  and  combine,  and  the 
higher  is  embodied  in  the  lower  and  both  in  the  ready  prepared 
ovum.  The  projection  is  in  a  sense  continued  in  the  Gesta- 
tional Procession,  which  completes  itself  in  the  act  of  par- 
turition. The  ovum  (ova)  has  been  transformed  into  the 
human  soma  even  as  Nature  in  the  corresponding  Divine 
Psychosic  Procession  was  transformed  into  the  bodies  of  our 
first  parents.      And  the  parallelism  holds  throughout. 

The  Formal  Process : 

(1)  The  Thesis:  Adam  and  Eve  Divinely  energized  and 
conscious  of  their  sexual  relationship  and  thereby  prepared  to 
reproduce  themselves  in  offspring — is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis — Ante-focal  Process:  Adam  and  Eve 
functionally  unite  and  in  the  subjective  Progression,  each 
Projects  his  human  Psychical  element,  and  in  the  objective 
Progression  each  his  somatic  element — into  the  uterus  where 
the  respective  Positive  and  Negative  elements  (drawn  to- 
gether by  strong  affinity)  combine  in  embryos.  The  psychical 
embryo  unites  without  fusion  with  somatic  (animistic) 
embryo  and  are  embodied  in  the  ovum  (ova)  to  form  the 
foetal  life. 

Analysis — Post-focal  Process :  This  Procession  is  Gesta- 
tional and  completes  itself  in  the  act  of  Parturition.  Eve 
protected  and  sustained  by  Adam's  provident  ministry,  nour- 
ishes the  foetal  life  throughout  this  Procession.  The  foetal 
life  develops  toward  its  individuality  and  therefore  achieves 
an  ever  widening  difference  from  its  parents. 

Now,  the  Adamic  soma  was  a  transformed  microcosm ;  it  was 
Nature  epitomized  and  sublimated;  and  the  Adamic  Psyche 
was  in  the  higher  Realm  its  exact  counterpart.  There  were 
then  as  many  orders  of  being  plus  one  in  the  human  soma  as  in 


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Nature ;  and  as  many  and  corresponding  orders  in  the  Adamic 
Psyche  as  in  its  soma.  In  the  Progeneration  of  the  festal 
life  the  parental  human  Psyche  and  soma  (anima)  are  sever- 
ally reduced  to  embryos.  And  the  Reduction  to  embryos 
involves  their  orderly  Diathetical  Inversion ;  the  lowest  order 
of  being  becomes  its  highest  or  outmost,  and  the  highest  the 
lowest  or  inmost.  In  the  Gestational  Procession  the  foetal 
soma  entirely  and  the  foetal  psyche  partially — inverts  itself. 
That  is,  Gestation  inverts  the  inversion  and  the  rising  orders 
of  somatic  existence  successively  appear.  The  inversion  is 
completed  in  the  act  of  parturition;  the  umbilical  cord  is 
cut;  the  infant  gasps  for  breath;  its  lungs  are  inflated  and 
expiration  follows ;  it  has  commenced  its  individual  life. 
The  Analysis  is  complete,  and  the  infant  has  attained  the 
major  limit  of  its  Projection  from  its  parents.  It  is  the 
opposite  or  antithesis  of  its  human  psychical  parents;  its 
Psychical  being  is  submerged  beneath  its  Physical  nature; 
figuratively  it  stands  on  its  head.  This  inversion  is  to  be 
inverted;  the  Analysis  to  be  Negated;  the  Projection  to  be 
recovered — in  order  that  its  parents  may  see  themselves 
reflected,  as  in  a  glass,  in  the  face  of  their  son.  And  this 
separation  is  effected  only  that  a  higher  union  between  parent 
and  child  may  be  achieved. 

(3)  The  Synthesis — The  Ante-focal  or  Educational  Pro- 
cession: Passing  by  the  Physical  Procession,  wherein  the 
mother  immediately  and  the  father  mediately  minister  to  the 
physical  nourishment  and  growth  of  the  offspring,  let  us  give 
our  attention  to  the  first  Psychosic  Procession  of  the  son. 
Here  the  parents  (the  father  chief  in  authority)  sympathi- 
cally  energize  and  infallibly  guide  their  son  (who  sponta- 
neously acknowledges  in  responsive  conduct  their  rightful 
authority  over  him)  through  the  First  Psychosic  Progression 
up  to  the  Focal  Point.  The  son,  rising  through  the  several 
orders  of  this  Procession,  gradually  inverts  his  Psychical 
inversion  of  his  parents ;  and  thus  provisionally  reproduces 
his  human  Psychical  parents  in  himself.      In  the  completion 


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of  the  Procession  he  achieves  his  Filial  self-consciousness. 
He  differentiates  himself  in  thought  from  his  parents  and 
becomes  conscious  of  his  moral  free  agency. 

The  Synthesis — The  Post-focal  Procession,  introduced 
by  the  Moral  Psychosis :  This  Procession  has  its  origin 
in  the  Focal  Point,  which  is  at  once  the  last  point  in  the 
last  Procession  and  the  first  point  in  this.  From  the  Parental 
side  this  Procession  is  Legal  and  from  the  Filial  side.  Moral. 
Adam  demands  of  his  son,  by  divine  right,  filial  obedience. 
The  well  begotten  son,  infallibly  led  through  the  First  Pro- 
cession, and  his  conscience  therefore  now  reinforced  by  strong 
filial  love,  freely  and  joyously  subjects  himself  to  the  parental 
will.  His  parents  lovingly  welcome  him  in  warmly  sympa- 
thetic fellowship  with  themselves.  And  the  human  family 
has  achieved  a  higher  though  still  provisional  trinity  in  unity. 
The  mission  of  the  son  in  this  Procession  is  free  co-operation 
with  his  parents  in  their  efforts  to  train  and  educate  him  for 
the  service  of  God  in  the  Avorld.  The  son  indwelt  of  the 
Divine  Psychical  spirit  of  his  parents, or  dwelling  foetus-like  in 
the  womb  of  his  parents'  Divine  Psychical  spirit,  completes 
this  moral  Psychosic  Procession  in  the  act  of  moral  Parturi- 
tion. And  the  morally  evolved  and  confirmed  son  is  vouch- 
safed a  vision  of  God — precisely  that  granted  Adam  on  the 
completion  of  his  First  Psychosic  Procession — trinal  like 
Adam's  and  yet  different  from  it  in  important  particulars ;  he 
becomes  conscious  of  himself  in  relation  to  God ;  to  Adam  as 
the  vicegerent  of  God  and  to  his  divinely  selected  woman  as 
his  helpmeet.  Adam  now  delivers  to  him  the  Divine  Com- 
mand, "Increase  and  multiply  and  replenish  the  Earth  and 
subdue  it." 

The  command,  unlike  that  to  Adam,  is  positive.  The  son 
(Adam's  immediate  offspring)  now  enters  and  infallibly 
passes  through  the  Ethical  Psychosis ;  and  Adam's  earthly 
mission  is  synchronously  completed.  God  through  the  media- 
tion of  the  Son  communicates  Pneumatical  Being  to  Adam  and 
Eve,  Divine  Psychical  being  to  their  immediate  offspring,  and 


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human  Psychical  being  to  the  Earth.  And  the  Pontal  Pneu- 
maticosis  unites  the  co-products  as  soul  with  body.  That  is 
after  the  likeness  of  the  union  of  soul  with  body,  but  not 
actually  as  soul  and  body ;  in  Generation  the  co-products  are 
actually  united  as  soul  and  body;  but  in  Regeneration  the 
co-products  are  united  merely  in  the  likeness  of  the  soul's 
union  with  its  body. 

The  Pneumatically  transformed  and  ascended  Adam  is  not 
the  soul  of  his  Divine  Psychically  regenerate  offspring,  nor 
the  latter  the  veritable  soul  of  human  Psychically  regenerate 
Nature.  Adam  as  Ascended  Lord  dwells  energetically  in  the 
person  of  his  Pneumatical  spirit  in  his  regenerate  offspring 
and  the  regenerate  offspring  dwell  energetically  in  the  person 
of  their  Divine  Psychical  spirit  in  the  human  Psychically 
regenerate  Earth. 

The  Adamic  Church  is  founded  on  Earth ;  and  the  Church 
is  endowed  with  potential  dominion  over  Nature. 

The  Church  as  body  and  bride  of  her  Ascended  Lord  carries 
Man's  great  commission,  "Be  fruitful  and  multiply  and 
replenish  the  Earth,  and  subdue  it,"  to  its  complete  fulfill- 
ment. Through  the  mediation  of  ascended  Adam  Pneumati- 
cal Being  is  then  communicated  to  the  Church  and  Divine 
Psychical  being  to  Nature.  The  Kingdom  of  heaven  is  let 
down  upon  the  Earth,  or  the  kingdom  of  Earth  is  lifted  up 
into  heaven. 

GENERAL   OBSERVATIONS    ON    THE    REPRODUC- 
TIVAL  PROCESSION. 

(1)  To  note  the  subjective  effects  of  progeneration  on 
the  parents :  Besides  bringing  their  three  respective  realms 
of  being  into  a  complementary  Oneness,  it  also  brings  the 
respective  lower  realms  each  into  perfect  subjection  under  its 
higher  realm.  Adam's  (and  Eve's)  human  Psychical  being 
is  thus  transformed  into  the  free  personal  organ  of  his  Divine 
Psychical  being,  transmitting  its  affection,  uttering  its 
thought  and  expressing  its  will,  and  in  their  mediation  appro- 


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priating  tlicm  to  itself.  In  like  manner  Adam's  reproductive 
soma  is  brought  into  positive  subjection  under  his  human 
Psychical  being;  and  the  integrity  of  his  altitudinal  trinity 
is  thoroughly  established.  The  "Lust  of  the  Flesh,"  Negated 
in  the  Ethical  Psychosis,  is  now  transformed  into  the  organ 
(in  the  objective  process)  of  Adam's  highest  being.  The 
Soma  can  now  be  aroused  into  its  reproductival  function  only 
at  the  behest  of  his  Divine  Psychical  being  mediated  by  his 
human  Psychical  being.  Adam's  children  are,  therefore, 
begotten  unto  God.  And  this  is  the  Divine  Eugenic  Law. 
No  human  foetal  life  is  therefore  eugcnically  begotten  that  is 
not  rationally  and  religiously  progenerated ;  and  this  but 
affirms  the  Doctrine  of  the  Church  universal — that  marriage 
is  a  Divine  Institution  for  the  multiplication  of  the  human 
race. 

(2)  The  Objective  Effects  of  Progcneration :  In  its  Pro- 
jection Adam's  Somatic  living  principle  (anima)  is  reduced 
to  an  embryo,  freighted  with  its  appropriate  human  Psychical 
embryo  and  united  with  the  ovum  (ova).  Thus  the  union  of 
the  soul  and  body  of  the  offspring  takes  place  one  entire 
Procession  lower  than  did  Adam's.  That  is,  the  Son's  human 
Psychical  being  was  more  deeply  implanted  in  his  Soma  than 
was  that  of  his  father,  Adam,  and  he  was  thus  more  strongly 
fortified  against  the  temptation  of  the  Flesh.  And  this  is 
true  also  of  the  daughter,  who,  like  the  son,  comes  into  the 
possession  of  human  Psychical  being  in  her  foetal  Estate. 
So  that  Adam's  son  is  in  the  foetal  estate  subjectively  fortified 
against  and  objectively  shielded  from  the  temptation  that 
beset  his  father.  This  constituted  the  Negative  ground  of  the 
Son's  impeccability. 

(3)  In  the  human  Psyche  of  Adam  (and  Eve)  at  the  time 
of  his  Divine  Psychical  regeneration  there  lay  (as  we  may 
conceive)  below  the  threshold  of  consciousness  in  descending 
strata  all  succeeding  progenerations  of  his  human  Psychical 
offspring;  so  likewise  of  his  somatical  offspring.  In  his 
reproductival  Psychosis  Adam  projects  forth  into  his  imme- 


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diate  offspring  (the  first  generation)  the  stratified  genera- 
tions of  the  unactualized  human  race.  The  upper  layer  or 
the  immediate  stratum  of  potential  human  Psyches  become 
actual  in  the  first  (pro)  generation.  And  so  on  to  the  last 
generation  in  which  the  potential  individual  human  Psyches 
of  the  lowest  or  last  stratum  are  actualized;  and  marriage 
is  forever  superseded.  Now  the  projections  forth  of  the  suc- 
ceeding generations  does  not  empty  or  impoverish  the  progeni- 
tors, but,  on  the  contrary,  serve  to  replenish  or  enrich  them; 
for  the  successive  projections  are  attended  by  corresponding 
inner  actualizations.  Adam  thus  in  his  projectional  Pro- 
cessions actualized  his  parental  human  Psychical  Headship 
over  his  immediate  offspring.  So  likewise  Adam's  immediate 
offspring  actualize  their  parental  human  Psychical  Headship 
over  their  offspring.  And  so  on  to  the  end  of  the  marital 
Procession.  There  thus  arise  in  descending  scale  from  Adam 
Patriarchy  after  Patriarchy.  In  the  end  the  trinal  Man, 
the  Son  of  Man,  or  the  Genus  Homo — embracing  Adam,  Eve 
and  the  human  Race  progenerate — is  actualized.  But  nor- 
mal Progeneration  of  offspring  is  conditioned  on  the  Divine 
Psychical  Regeneration  of  the  Progenitors.  Regeneration 
involved  the  birth  from  above  or  the  implantation  in  the  Pro- 
genitors of  Divine  Ps^'chical  being  of  the  first  or  Conscious 
Estate  and  perfectly  counterparting  their  respective  human 
Psychical  beings.  Now  as  the  Progenitors  function  in  their 
respective  Reproductival  Processions,  they  progressively 
actualize  in  their  Divine  Psychical  beings  every  Divine  Psychi- 
cal potence  implanted  in  them  in  their  regenerations.  The 
Superior  and  the  inferior  (the  Divine  Psychical  and  the 
Human  Psychical)  Processions  synchronize;  and  the  comple- 
tion of  the  one  involves  the  completion  of  the  other. 

(4)  When,  therefore,  the  last  Reproductival  Procession  is 
completed  the  trinal  man  (Son  of  Man)  is  actualized  and  syn- 
chronously the  Divine  Psychical  Son  of  God  with  his  per- 
fectly actualized  human  Son  ("the  Son  of  Man")— is  an 
accomplished  fact.      The  final  and  complete  product  of  the 


72        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

Grand  Reproductival  Procession  is  the  Theanthropos,  the  Son 
of  God  incarnate  in  the  Son  of  Man  (the  Human  trinity), 

(5)  In  a  sense,  human  Progeneration  is  a  symbol  of  Gen- 
eration, each  involving  the  Projectional  Procession;  but  it 
more  perfectly  symbolizes  Regeneration.  For  Generation 
lowers  the  realm  of  being  in  the  offspring,  while  Regeneration 
does  not — it  simply  reduces  the  estate  of  parental  being  in  the 
provisional  recovery  of  the  offspring.  For  example,  God  the 
Father's  Pneumatical  regeneration  of  the  obedient  Divine 
Psyche  was  but  an  act  of  self-multiplication  in  the  Son — it 
was  the  impartation  to  him  of  Pneumatical  Being  of  the  con- 
scious or  Primal  Estate.  So  also  in  the  Divine  Psychical 
regeneration  of  obedient  Adam,  the  Pneumatically  trans- 
formed Divine  Psyche  reduces  his  Divine  Psychical  self  from 
the  Fifth  Estate  of  Divine  Psychical  being  to  the  Primal  or 
conscious  estate  of  the  same  realm  of  being.  So  again  in  the 
Progeneration  of  his  son,  Divine  Psychicalh^  transformed 
Adam  reduces  himself  from  the  Fifth  human  Psychical  Estate 
to  the  Primal  or  conscious  estate  of  human  Psychical  being. 

(6)  But  here  the  Projectional  Procession  breaks  into  two 
Sub-Processions — the  conceptional  and  the  Gestational.  In 
the  one  the  Parental  soul  and  body  are  each  reduced  to  an 
embryo  and  united  in  the  uterus  without  fusion.  The  Psy- 
chical product  is  sub-conscious  and  therefore  below  the 
Primal  or  conscious  Estate  of  Psychical  being;  and  the  phy- 
sical product  is  an  undeveloped  embryo,  and  therefore  below 
the  Primal  Somatical  Estate.  In  the  next  Procession,  the 
Gestational,  the  Psychical  embryo  is  to  achieve  its  Primal  or 
conscious  estate;  and  the  somatical  embryo  its  Primal  or 
micro-somatical  estate.  Since  the  offspring  of  Adam  (at 
whatever  remove)  Progenerate  offspring  only  as  energized  by 
the  Pneumatical  spirit  of  their  Ascended  Lord,  who  homes 
himself  in  them,  it  may  then  be  said  that  Adam  Progenerates 
the  human  race — his  son. 

(7)  Analysis — (b)  The  Post-focal  or  Gestational  Proces- 
sion: The  Conceptional  Procession  is  the  true  and  only  real 


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THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.        73 

Projection.      In  this,  the  Gestational  Procession,  two  antag- 
onistic forces  operate  in  the  development  of  both  the  psychical 
and  the  physical   embryos — the   one   force   centrifugal,   the 
other  centripetal.      In  respect  to  the  Physical  embryo  the 
centrifugal  energy  operates  to  effect  a  complete  Analysis  or 
separation  of  the  developed  foetus  from  the  parental  body, 
while  the  centripetal  energy  avails  to  reproduce  (in  minia- 
ture)  in  the  developed  foetus  the  parent  organism.      So,  in 
respect  to  the  Psychical  embryo,  the  centrifugal  force  oper- 
ates to  achieve  in  the  new  born  infant  a  degree  of  psychical 
individuality   that   further   separates   it   from   its   psychical 
parents,  while  on  the  other  hand  the  centripetal  force  operates 
to  reproduce,  though  incompletely,  the  psychical  parents  in 
the  infant.      The  Gestational  Procession  moves  in  the  arc  of  a 
circle  (or  more  accurately  a  parabola).      In  the  sense  indi- 
cated, Gestation  completes  itself  in  the  act  of  Parturition,  the 
Analysis  or  the  Projection  forth  of  the  offspring  from  the 
womb  of  the  mother;  and  there  provisionally  completes  the 
evolution  of  the  individual  physical  organism  of  the  new-born 
infant  and  at  the  same  time  evolves  the  incarnate  psychical 
embryo  up  to  the  Primal  or  conscious  psychical  estate.     Let 
us  further  consider  the  evolution  of  the  foetal  Soma.      From 
the  fact  that  the  Adamic  Soma  is  a  sublimated  microcosm, 
and  the  infant's  body  a  micro-soma,  it  may  be  inferred  that 
the  foetal   soma  evolves  in  the  order  of   Nature's   creation. 
The  evolutional  Procession  of  the  foetal  soma  (set  free  by  the 
related  Procession  in  the  maternal  soma)   should  achieve  in 
order  the  seven  rising  orders  of  existence;  that  is,  the  foetal 
soma  should  in  the  Gestational  Procession  actualize  in  itself 
in  orderly  succession  the  seven  potential  orders  of  existence 
involved   in  it  by  its   Progeneration.      In   the   superinduced 
reduction  of  the  Adamic  soma  to  the  foetal  soma,  the  Proces- 
sion must  originate  in  its  highest  order  and  descend  in  orderly 
succession  to  the  lowest.     That  is,  each  creatural  order  must 
propagate  itself  in  its  proper  succession  after  its  own  peculiar 
method.     There  are  seven  methods  of  Propagation  answering 


74        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

to  the  seven  orders  of  creature  (embracing  the  human  soma) 
namely:  (1)  The  human  sexual;  (2)  the  Natural  sexual; 
(3)  the  bisexual;  (4)  gemmational;  (5)  the  Fissional;  (6) 
the  chemical  or  material;  (7)  the  spatial  (processless).  In 
Adam's  Progeneration  of  the  foetal  soma,  each  creatural  order 
of  the  parental  soma  (as  represented  in  the  parental  anima) 
in  descending  order  reduces  itself  to  an  embryonic  anima. 
And  the  compound  embryo  is  projected  from  each  parent  into 
the  womb  of  the  mother,  where  united  they  are  incarnated  in 
the  ovum.  The  foetal  soma  is  then  the  Diathetical  inversion 
of  the  parental  soma;  that  is,  its  lowest  order  is  its  utmost 
order  and  its  highest  order  its  inmost.  The  Gestational  Pro- 
cession is  therefore  inversional.  The  Procession  begins  then 
in  the  evolution  of  the  lowest  order  and  rises  in  orderly  suc- 
cession to  that  of  the  highest.  And  embryology  so  testifies. 
The  inversion  of  the  foetal  soma  is  completed  in  the  act  of 
parturition  when  the  soma  of  the  new-born  infant  reproduces 
in  epitome  the  parental  soma.  (The  ovum  supplies  the 
material  elements  that  transformed  are  to  constitute  the  real 
body.) 

(8)  It  is  to  be  borne  in  mind  that  the  infant  began  its 
existence  in  a  sub-conscious  estate  or  one  Procession  lower 
than  did  Adam.  The  new  born  infant  must  therefore  pass 
through  two  Processions  before  it  can  attain  the  position  of 
Adam  where  he  was  vouchsafed  the  vision  of  the  Most  High. 
In  the  first  post-natal  Procession  the  child  achieves  self- 
consciousness  with  respect  not  to  his  Divine,  but  to  his  human 
Father.  The  son  under  regenerate  parental  guidance  and 
tuition  achieves  its  First  Psychosic  Procession,  infallibly; 
for  Adam  regenerate  not  only  knows  Nature  as  the  word  of 
God,  but  also  transforms  it  into  a  medium  of  communication 
with  his  son.  And,  besides,  Adam's  regeneration  involved  as 
its  objective  co-product  the  human  animistic  regeneration  of 
Nature ;  and  regenerate  Nature  in  the  completion  of  the  Pon- 
tal  Pneumaticos  was  united  through  Eve  to  the  regenerate 
Adam  as  outer  body  to  soul.     Absolute  dominion  over  Nature 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.        75 

(his  outer  body)  was  thus  divinely  transferred  to  Adam, 
which  gave  him  the  power  of  external  Providence  over  his 
offspring.  Moreover  Nature  was  to  Adam  in  his  First  Psy- 
chosic  Procession,  the  inspired  word  of  God ;  but  he  received 
no  vision  of  the  person  of  God  the  Father  or  His  Son  until 
he  had  completed  the  Procession.  Throughout  this  Proces- 
sion Adam  energized  by  the  spirit  of  the  Divine  Psyche 
rendered  an  instinctive,  undeliberated  obedience.  But  the 
son  has  not  only  the  inner  energizings  of  the  Divine  Psychical 
spirit  of  his  regenerate  father,  but  he  also  has  in  Adam  the 
outer,  present,  living,  personalized  will  of  God  to  him.  The 
son  cannot  but  instinctively  obey  his  parents.  If  the  son's 
educational  evolution  is  aborted  it  can  be  the  result  only  of 
Adam's  failure  faithfully  to  discharge  his  parental  functions. 
But  Adam's  character  is  confirmed  in  holiness,  else  his  eternal 
well  being  might  twice  be  put  in  jeopardy.  Again  because 
regenerate,  created  anew  in  the  image  of  the  Divine  Psyche, 
Adam  possesses  that  parental  affection  for  his  son  that  fitly 
symbolizes  the  love  of  the  Divine  Psyche  toward  him,  which 
in  turn  symbolizes  the  love  of  God  toward  His  eternally 
begotten  Son.  We  conclude  then  that  the  educational 
Procession  can  not  possibly  be  abrupted.  The  Human 
Reproductival  Psychosis  is  a  circle  of  four  equal  arcs  and  the 
parent  that  abrupts  the  Procession  at  any  point  of  any  quad- 
rant commits  in  the  sight  of  God  a  most  heinously  sinful  abor- 
tion— and  perhaps,  probably,  the  later  the  abruption  the 
more  heinously  sinful  the  act — at  least  in  its  objective  con- 
sequences. The  son  of  Adam  therefore  infallibly  passes 
through  the  First  Psychosic  Procession  and  in  this  Procession 
inverts  his  psychical  being  as  in  the  Gestational  Procession 
he  inverted  his  somatical  being  (existence).  At  birth  his 
highest  Psychical  order  of  being  is  the  lowest  and  the  lowest 
the  highest ;  and  so  of  the  intermediate  orders.  The  new-born 
psyche  in  his  parentally  energized  self-evolution  gradually 
turns  his  inside  out  until  in  the  completion  of  the  Procession 
he  enthrones  his  highest  Psychical  order  of  being  over  his 


76        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

regularly  descending  orders  and  all  over  his  soma.  This  is 
a  Psycho-Gestational  Procession  and  completes  itself  in  an 
act  of  Psychical  Parturition,  after  which  he  becomes  a  free, 
voluntary  actor.  He  has  become  conscious  of  himself  as  a 
free  moral  Agent  and  of  Adam's  rightful  authority  over  him. 
The  son  is  now  duly  prepared  to  be  led  through  the  Moral 
Psychosis. 

(9)  The  Moral  Procession  (from  the  parental  side  the 
Legal  Procession).  x\dam,  looking  forward,  has  gradually 
prepared  his  son  for  free  voluntary  action,  so  that  now  when 
he  lays  on  the  self-conscious  son  the  obligation  of  filial  obe- 
dience no  crisis  is  brought  on.  Will  not  the  son  freely  and 
unhesitatingly  accept  Adam  that  he  should  rule  over  him  and 
that  without  even  a  conscious  self-negation.''  Yes,  for  the 
son's  instinctive  response  to  the  loving,  self-negating  ministry 
of  his  parents  has  developed,  in  ever  increasing  measure,  an 
answering  filial  affection  for  them.  The  sense  of  duty  has 
been  transfigured  into  a  constraining  love.  The  son  is  not 
regenerated  except  as  his  father  receives  a  higher  regenera- 
tion. But  the  Divine  Psychical  spirit  of  Adam  dwells  in  the 
self-conscious  self-surrendered  son ;  or  the  self-conscious  son 
dwells  consciously  in  the  Divine  Psychical  womb  of  Adam. 
And  here  is  a  miracle ;  a  self-conscious  life  within  a  self- 
conscious  life  and  the  lower  life  perfectly  free,  yet  thinking 
the  thought,  willing  the  will,  and  reciprocating  the  love  of 
the  higher  or  enveloping  life.  So  the  son's  life  here  is  a  moral 
gestational  Procession.  And  as  the  physical  foetus  dwells 
in  the  physical  womb,  its  self-activities  being  set  free  and  sus 
tained  by  the  corresponding  self-activities  of  the  mother, 
even  so  the  self-conscious  son  dwelling  foetus-like  in  the  Divine 
Psychical  womb  of  Adam  has  his  moral  self-evolution  infalli- 
bly set  free  and  sustained  by  corresponding  self-activities 
of  Adam's  enveloping  Divine  Psychical  being. 

(10)  This  Moral  Procession  concerns  itself  (in  its  later 
stages)  with  the  incarnation  of  human  thought,  feeling  and 
will  in  Nature  which  involves  the  forward  carriage  of  Nature 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.        77 

toward  its  final  perfection.    The  Divine  Psyche's  thought  was 
embodied  (realized)  in  Nature;  the  Human  Psyche's  thought 
is  embodied  in  the  extension  of  Nature.    Or  the  Divine  Psyche 
created    Nature;    the    Human    Psyche    Procreates    Nature. 
Under  the  providential  guidance  and  tuition  of  Adam  and  in 
his  communicated  strength,  the  son  (his  immediate  offspring) 
begins  the  development  of  arts,  sciences,  institutions,  litera- 
ture and  philosophy.     Thus  Adam  and  his  offspring  collabo- 
rate in  the  superimposition  of  a  quasi  Psychical  World  upon 
the  Natural.     And  in  this  objective  achievement  the  human 
Agents  actualize  in  themselves  a  corresponding  inner  Psychi- 
cal World.      This  great  commission  is  not  accomplished  by 
Adam  and  his  immediate  offspring  alone,  but  the  successive 
generations  are  called  as  they  arise  into  active  co-operation  in 
the  work.      Thus  civilization,  as  a  great  snowball,  the  army  of 
workers  re-enforced  by  an  ever  enlarging  number  of  acces- 
sions, increases  as  it  is  rolled  down  upon  the  succeeding  gener- 
ations.  The  motive  actuating  the  freely  confederated  army  is 
twofold :  ( 1 )  Obedience  unto  Adam  ;  (2)  a  benevolent  desire  to 
enlarge  the  being  of  the  successive  generations  of  offspring. 
And  the  "Desire"  is  reinforced  by  a  sense  of  obligation  to  pre- 
ceding generations  for  the  dual  benefit  received  at  their  hands 
— an  objective  civilization  and  the  subjective  potentiality  to 
appropriate  it  and  to  transmit  it  enhanced  to  the  next  genera- 
tion.     In  this  Procession  the  moral  nature  of  the  offspring 
is  evolved  and  confirmed.      This  Gestational  Procession  com- 
pletes itself  in  the  act  of  moral  Parturition;  the  son  is  now 
vouchsafed  a  vision  of  the  Son  of  God — and  the  vision  is  not 
without  definite  content;  for  the  Pneumatically  transformed 
Son  of  God  is  symboled  forth  in  Adam.     The  son  of  Adam, 
his  moral  nature  having  been  thoroughly  evolved  in  his  pas- 
sage through  the  Moral  Psychosic  Procession,  is  infallibly 
fortified  against  temptation.      The  Son  (immediate  offspring) 
morally  reinforced  from  within  and  divinely  inspired  from 
without  infallibly  achieves  a  triumphant  passage  through  the 
Ethical   Procession.      The   Ethical   Psychosis   here   involved 


78        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

naught  but  the  son's  free  acceptance  of  Adam  his  earthly 
father  as  the  divinely  appointed  vicegerent  of  his  heavenly 
Father.  Heart  and  conscience  readily  validated  the  Divine 
Command ;  and  the  impeccable  son  yields  himself  to  the  vice- 
gerency  of  Adam.  This  synchronously  complete  the  earthly 
ministry  of  Adam  and  the  merely  human  Psychical  Pro- 
cessions of  his  immediate  offspring. 

(11)  God,  therefore,  through  the  mediation  of  His  eternally 
begotten  Son,  communicates  in  the  Subjective  Progression 
Pneumatical  Being  to  Adam,  in  the  first  Objective  Progres- 
sion, Divine  Psychical  being  to  Adam's  immediate  offspring — 
and  in  the  second  objective  Progression,  human  Psychical 
being  to  the  Earth.  The  Pontal  Pneumaticosis  unites  the 
co-products  as  soul  with  body ;  or,  more  properly,  it  maritally 
conjugates  the  co-products.  For  this  differentiates  the  union 
of  Regeneratival  co-products  from  that  of  Generatival 
co-products.  In  Progeneration,  however,  both  kinds  of  union 
are  to  be  found.  The  union  of  the  Positive  and  Negative  ele- 
ments of  the  two  respective  realms  of  being  are  maritally  con- 
jugated in  the  proximate  products  or  embryos,  while  the 
union  of  the  two  embryos  with  each  other  and  then  with  the 
ovum  is  a  psycho-somatical  Conjugation.  Adam's  union  then 
in  the  Pontal  Procession  with  his  regenerate  offspring  and 
both  with  the  regenerate  Earth  is  marital  rather  than  psycho- 
somatical.  And  the  Adamic  Church  is  the  Bride  rather  than 
the  Body  of  her  Ascended  Lord.  And  yet  since  the  tie  that 
binds  Adam's  Church  to  him  is  his  Pneumatical  Spirit  who 
unites  by  indwelling,  the  church  may  be  safely  thouglit  of  as 
Adam's  body.  And  it  may  be  argued  that,  as  the  uncorrupted 
body  is  utterly  obedient  to  the  undepraved  and  regenerate  soul 
it  incarnates,  so  the  Adamic  Church  indwelt  of  the  spirit  of 
her  Ascended  Lord  will  impeccably  fulfill  the  mission  He 
devolves  upon  her.  Or,  again  looking  at  the  relation  between 
Pneumatically  transformed  Adam  and  his  regenerate  off- 
spring as  still  that  of  parent  to  son,  though  not  precisely 
exact — the  impeccability  of  the  Church  may  be  corrobora- 


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tively  established.  If  the  Spirit  of  the  Ascended  Adam 
dwells  energetically  in  his  regenerate  offspring,  the  church 
must  dwell  co-operatively  in  the  Pneumatical  womb  of  her 
ascended  Lord;  and  the  co-operation  of  the  church,  though 
utterly  free,  is  at  the  same  time  necessitated  and  that  by 
Eternal  Law. 

(12)  The  Mission  of  the  Church  is  to  complete  the  divinely 
devolved  Mission,  "Be  fruitful  and  multiply  and  replenish  the 
earth;  and  subdue  it."  The  Church's  missional  Procession 
will  fall  therefore  into  so  many  successive  Reproductival  Pro- 
cessions as  there  are  potential  generations  (less  One)  to  be 
actualized  and  so  many  parallel  Reproductival  Processions  in 
any  generation  as  sexually  paired  (married)   couples. 

(13)  So  much  for  the  first  part  of  the  Church's  Mission — 
the  Great  Reproductival  Procession — but  how  is  the  "Subdu- 
ing of  the  Earth,"  or  the  Procession  of  Nature  to  be  accom- 
plished? Synchronously  and  incidentally.  As  Adam  Pneu- 
matically dwells  in  the  Church  energetically  setting  free  her 
responsive  self-activities,  so  the  Church  Divinely  Psychically 
dwells  in  the  human  Psychically  regenerate  Earth,  energet- 
ically setting  free  her  responsive  self-activities  in  such  a  man- 
ner as  that  all  things  work  together  for  the  good  of  the 
Church.  That  is  the  Divine  Psychical  Spirit  of  the  Church 
works  in  the  Earth's  human  Psyche  to  co-operate  with  the 
Church  in  such  fashion  as  to  assure  her  physical  and  mental 
conquest  of  Nature.  But  the  Church's  conquest  of  Nature  is 
conditioned  on  her  continuously  free  responses  to  the  ener- 
getical promptings  of  the  spirit  of  her  Ascended  Lord.  The 
church,  therefore,  as  an  organism  of  free  membral  organs 
mediatorially  achieves  Adam's  dominion  over  the  Earth. 
When,  therefore,  the  Great  Procession  of  the  Reproductival 
Processions  of  the  Church  completes  itself,  Nature's  human 
Psyche  will  simultaneously  have  completed  its  reciprocal  Pro- 
cessions. God,  through  the  mediation  of  the  Ascended  Adam, 
will,  in  the  subjective  Progression,  communicate  Pneumatical 
Being  to  the  Church  and  Divine  Psychical  being  to  the  Earth. 

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And  the  Pontal  Pneumaticosis  will  unite  Divinely  Psychically 
regenerated  Nature  with  the  Pneumatically  transformed 
Church  as  body  with  soul.  This  the  end.  But  every  end 
is  a  New  Beginning.  Shall  Regenerate  Nature  united  as  body 
with  the  Church  maintain  eternally  a  merely  statical  Estate.? 
That  is  unthinkable.  Then  must  the  Church  also  merely  main- 
tain her  achieved  Estate,  which  is  at  least  equally  inconceiv- 
able. No,  Nature  incarnating  the  Divine  Psyche  must,  after 
the  manner  of  the  Divine  Psychical  Adam,  reproduce  itself  in 
another  or  a  New  World,  and  that  in  yet  another,  and  so  on 
through  all  eternity.  The  eternally  begotten  Son  of  God 
alone  could  have  created  Nature  and  generated  the  original 
Man ;  but  is  not  the  unshared  prerogative  of  the  Divine  Psy- 
chical being  communicated  to  Nature  to  enable  her  to  pro- 
create a  New  Nature  and  progenerate  a  New  Man.? 

THE  ESTATES  OF  BEING  AND  OF  SELF-CON- 
SCIOUSNESS. 

1.  Each  Realm  of  Being  attains  a  higher  estate  for  each 
of  the  ascending  Processions  achieved.  And  the  rising 
Estates  register  corresponding  Evolutional  modifications  in 
the  self-Consciousness  of  the  Agent.  Real  self-consciousness 
is  the  possible  achievement  of  Pneumatical  Being  alone,  abso- 
lute self-consciousness  is  the  exclusive  distinction  of  God 
alone  and  is  achieved  in  its  primal  Estate  as  the  product  of 
the  First  Pneumaticosic  Procession  wherein  He  becomes  con- 
scious of  himself  as  self-differentiated  into  conjugal  subjec- 
tive-objective Being. 

Every  Estate  of  self-consciousness  is  conditioned  on  the 
Agent's  cognition  of  his  relationship  to  some  person  or 
creature  (or  both).  The  Divine  Psyche  achieves  in  the  First 
Procession  real  unalienable  but  not  absolute  self-conscious- 
ness. He  becomes  in  this  Procession  conscious  of  himself  as 
sustaining  a  relationship  on  the  one  hand  to  the  transcendent 
God  and  on  the  other  hand  to  Nature,  his  creature.      Self- 


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consciousness  below  the  absolute,  is  moral  self-orientation; 
and  all  Estates,  even  of  human  self-consciousness,  have  as 
their  supreme  end  self-orientation  with  respect  to  God.  Self- 
consciousness  then  in  an}'^  generated  or  progenerated  being 
advances  in  reality  with  the  Agent's  subjective  achievement 
of  increasingly  essential  being. 

2.  (1)  The  Primal  Estate  of  God,  the  absolute  Pneuma, 
is  pure  insidedness,  absolute  subjectivity,  or  extraneously 
unconditioned  consciousness. 

(2)  Through  the  First  Pneumaticosic  Procession,  God 
raises  Himself  by  absolute  self-evolution  into  the  second  or 
self-conscious  estate  of  Pneumatical  Being,  He  becomes  con- 
scious of  himself  as  self-differentiated  into  conjugal  subjec- 
tive-objective pneumatical  Being. 

(3)  Out  of  this  Estate  God  arises  by  absolute  self-evolution 
(as  He  generates  His  Eternally  begotten  Son,  the  Divine 
Psyche)  into  the  Third  Estate  of  Being,  characterized  by  the 
consciousness  of  Himself  as  the  generator  of  the  Divine 
Psyche. 

(4)  God  arises  out  of  the  Third  Estate  through  His  inspi- 
ration and  providential  guidance  of  His  Son  in  his  instinc- 
tively obedient  passage  through  the  First  or  Creatival  Psy- 
chosic  Procession  into  the  Fourth  Estate  of  Being — charac- 
terized by  His  consciousness  of  Himself  as  rightful  Lord  over 
His  Son,  and  over  His  creature.  Nature. 

(5)  God  in  the  exercise  of  His  rightful  parental  authority 
devolves  on  the  Son  the  filial  obligation  of  obedience,  "Let  us 
make  man  in  our  own  image,  after  our  likeness,"  and  He 
therein  achieves  the  Fifth  Estate  of  Being  and  its  allied  Estate 
of  self-consciousness.  He  actualizes  in  consciousness  His 
primacy  in  the  Godhead. 

(6)  God  energetically  guides  His  obedient  son  in  his  gen- 
eration of  Adam.  Communicating  Pneumatical  Being  to 
Him ;  and  therein  achieved  a  higher  estate  of  the  Divine  trin- 
ity and  the  self-consciousness  attendant  thereon. 


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(7)  God  now  energetically  inspires  His  Pneumatically 
transformed  Son  as  he  providentially  guides  instinctively 
obedient  Adam  through  the  First  human  Psychosis  Proces- 
sion ;  the  Son  therein  achieves  Pneumatical  self-consciousness. 
God  is  self-differentiated  into  three  persons — the  Father,  the 
Son  and  the  Holy  Spirit — and  self-integrated  into  one  God. 
Does  tliis  mark  the  final  achievable  Estate  of  the  Divine 
Being?  The  limit  of  God's  exaltation?  Certainly  the  objec- 
tive ground  of  His  exaltation  is  not  to  be  limited  to  the  Crea- 
tion of  this  world.  And  if  it  be  granted,  as  of  logical  neces- 
sity it  must,  that  the  extension  of  the  objective  ground  pre- 
supposes the  corresponding  subjective  exaltation  we  must 
conclude  that  there  can  be  no  end  to  the  advancing  estates 
achievable  in  the  Divine  Being. 

THE  ESTATES  OF  THE  DIVINE  PSYCHE. 

3.  ( 1 )  The  primal  Estate  of  the  Divine  Psyche  is  conscious 
being. 

(2)  Out  of  this  estate  the  Divine  Psyche  rises  by  divinely 
energized  self-evolution  into  the  second  or  self-conscious 
estate. 

(3)  He  now  freely  subjects  himself  to  the  Will  of  God  and 
generates  Adam,  thereby  enthroning  Conscience.  Because  of 
his  obedience  Pneumatical  being  of  the  primal  estate  is 
implanted  in  him.  And  the  Third  Estate  of  Divine  Psychical 
being  and  the  First  Estate  of  Pneumatical  Being  are  achieved. 

(4)  The  Regenerate  Divine  Psyche  providentially  guides 
and  energizes  (through  the  medium  of  his  Divine  Psychical 
being)  Adam  in  his  passage  through  the  First  Human  Psy- 
chosic  Procession.  And  the  Son  of  God  therein  achieves  (at 
the  same  time)  the  second  or  self-conscious  pneumatical  and 
the  Fourth  Estate  of  Divine  Psychical  being. 

(5)  Out  of  this  Estate  the  Divine  Psyche  rises  (by  the 
revelation  of  himself  to  Adam  as  the  will  of  God  with  respect 
to  the  trinal  man)  into  the  third  estate  of  pneumatical  Being 


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and  the  Fifth  Estate  of  Divine  Psychical  Being.  He  here 
leads  Adam  through  the  Ethical  Psychosis.  His  command 
(on  its  positive  side)  is,  "Let  us  progenerate  the  human  Son  in 
our  image,  after  our  likeness."  Adam  obeyed  by  Negating 
the  forbidden  alternative. 

(6)  The  Regenerate  Divine  Psyche  communicates  Divine 
Psychical  Being  to  Adam,  human  Psychical  being  to  Eve  and 
human  animistic  being  to  the  Earth ;  and  therein  achieved  the 
Fourth  Estate  of  Pneumatical  Being  and  the  Sixth  Estate  of 
Divine  Psychical  being. 

(7)  The  transformed  Divine  Psyche  energizes  Adam's 
Reproductival  Psychosis  and  achieves  the  Fifth  Estate  of 
Pneumatical  Being  and  the  Seventh  and  final  Estate  of  Divine 
Psychical  being. 

(8)  The  Pneumatically  transformed  Divine  Psyche  com- 
municates Pneumatical  Being  to  Adam  and  Eve,  Divine  Psy- 
chical being  to  Adam's  immediate  offspring,  and  generic 
human  Psychical  being  to  the  Earth ;  and  therein  achieved 
the  Sixth  Estate  of  Filial  Pneumatical  Being. 

(9)  The  Pneumatically  transformed  Divine  Psyche  ener- 
gizes Adam  in  First  Pneumaticosic  Procession  and  therein 
achieves  his  Seventh  and  provisionally  final  estate  of  Pneu- 
matical Being. 

THE  ADVANCING  ESTATES  AND  REALMS  OF 

ADAM'S  BEING. 

4.  (1)  The  Primal  Estate  of  Adam  is  Conscious  human 
Psychical  Being. 

(2)  From  this  Estate  Adam  divinely  energized  passes  up 
through  the  first  Psychosic  Procession  into  the  Second  or 
Self-Conscious  Estate. 

(3-1)  Adam  enters  and  passes  through  the  Ethical  Psy- 
chosis and  thereby  achieves  the  Third  Estate  of  human  Psy- 
chical being;  and  because  of  his  obedience  Divine  Psychical 
being  of  the  primal  Estate  is  imparted  to  him.     That  is, 


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Divine  Psychical  being  of  the  primal  Estate  is  embodied  in 
human  Psychical  being  of  the  Third  Estate. 

(•i-2)  Adam  divinely  energized  achieves  the  Second  or 
self-conscious  Estate  of  Divine  Psychical  being;  and  his 
human  Psychical  body  responsively  energizing  rises  as  it  is 
raised  into  the  Fourth  Estate  of  Human  Psychical  being. 

(5-3)  In  the  Progeneration  of  his  immediate  offspring  he 
achieves  the  Fifth  Estate  of  Human  Psychical  being  and  the 
Third  Estate  of  Divine  Psychical  being. 

(6-4)  As  Adam  providentially  and  energetically  guides 
his  offspring  through  the  self-evolutional  (mental-moral) 
Procession  he  achieves  the  Sixth  estate  of  human  Psychical 
being  and  the  Fourth  Estate  of  Divine  Ps^^chical  Being. 

7-5-1.  Adam  now  devolves  upon  his  morally  confirmed  off- 
spring the  obligation  to  accept  him  as  the  vicegerent  of  the 
Divine  Psyche,  whom  he  symbolizes ;  and  his  impeccable 
offspring  acknowledge  him  to  be  their  Lord.  Adam  therein 
achieved  the  Seventh  Estate  of  human  Psychical  being,  the 
Fifth  Estate  of  Divine  Psychical  being,  and  He  is  Pneu- 
matically regenerated. 

ADAM'S  POST  ASCENSION  MINISTRY. 

5.  (5-1)  The  Primal  Estate  of  Pneumatically  regenerated 
Adam  is  Conscious  Pneumatical  Being  implanted  in  Divine 
Psychical  being  of  the  Fifth  Estate. 

(6-2)  Adam  ascends  up  on  high  and  therein  achieves  the 
second  or  self-conscious  Estate  of  Pneumatical  Being  and  the 
Sixth  Estate  of  Divine  Psychical  being. 

(7-3)  As  Adam  energetically  guides  his  Church,  he 
achieves  the  Third  Estate  of  Pneumatical  Being  and  the 
Seventh  Estate  of  Divine  Psychical  being. 

(4)  Adam  through  the  mediation  of  his  church  communi- 
cates Divine  Psychical  being  to  the  morally  confirmed  off- 
spring as  they  arise  and  accept  his  vicegerency ;  and  therein 
achieves  the  Fourth  Estate  of  Pneumatical  Being. 


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5.  Adam  communicates  to  his  Church  on  the  completion  of 
its  mission  Pneumatical  Being  and  to  Nature  Divine  Psychical 
being;  and  therein  achieves  the  Fifth  Estate  of  Pneumatical 
Being. 

THE    ADVANCING    ESTATES    AND    REALMS    OF 
ADAM'S  REGENERATE  SON,  THE  CHURCH. 

6.  Adam's  Son  (immediate  offspring)  is  regenerated  on 
the  free  subjection  of  himself  to  the  Will  of  God  and  is  therein 
raised  into  the  body  and  bride  of  the  Ascended  Adam.  The 
Church  of  Adam  is  Instituted  and  as  such  is  indwelt  of  the 
Spirit  of  her  ascended  Lord.  The  Church  is  constituent  of 
free  individual  members,  or  organs  ;  and  is  therefore  an  organ- 
ism whose  integrity  or  solidarity  is  secured  by  the  ever 
indwelling  and  energizing  Holy  Spirit  proceeding  from  the 
Father  through  the  Pneumatically  transformed  Adam.  Now 
man  is  a  triune  being.  Therefore  every  individual  member  of 
the  Church  is  in  posse  a  member  of  an  inferior  human  trinity. 
If  we  conceive  Adam's  immediate  offspring  to  have  been  but 
one  man  and  one  woman,  they  (regenerated)  constituted  the 
original  church  whose  simple  mission  it  was  to  reproduce 
themselves  in  offspring.  Following  in  the  footsteps  of  Adam, 
they  would  have  progenerated  offspring,  providentially 
guided  them  through  the  First  Psychosic  Procession,  ener- 
gized their  moral  development,  revealed  themselves  to  them  as 
a  symbol  of  their  common  ascended  Lord  and  on  their  self- 
subjection  to  him,  mediated  to  them  the  regenerating  energy 
of  the  indwelling  Holy  Spirit.  The  original  Church  would 
thus  have  reproduced  itself.  It  would  then  in  like  manner 
reproduce  itself  (at  one  remove)  in  the  next  succeeding  gen- 
eration ;  and  so  on  to  the  last.  The  mission  of  the  Church  in 
this  Dispensation  would  then  express  itself  in  a  Great  Pro- 
cession of  Reproductival  Processions  on  the  completion  of 
which  the  Church  would  be  Pneumatically  and  Nature  Divine- 
Psychically  regenerated.     Adam  delivers  up  his  mediatorial 


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office  and  God  Himself  dwells  in  the  Church;  and  regenerate 
Nature  is  united  with  the  Pneumatically  transformed  Church 
as  body  with  soul.  This  the  Palingenesis — the  end;  but 
every  end  is  a  new  beginning.  The  regenerate  church  indwelt 
of  God  achieves  Pneumatical  Self-Conscious  as  it  energizes 
Nature's  First  Divine  Ps^^chosic  Procession.  In  this  Psycho- 
sic  Procession  Nature's  Divine  Psyche  achieves  in  the  sub- 
jective Progression  self-consciousness  and  in  the  objective 
Progression  the  Procreation  of  his  existential  bod}'  in  a  new- 
Nature  (Cosmos).  The  Church  admitted  into  the  eternal 
counsels  of  God  delivers  the  Divine  Command  to  Nature's 
self-conscious  Divine  Psyche,  "Let  us  make  Man  in  our  own 
image,  after  our  likeness."  Nature's  Divine  Psyche  freely 
obeys;  and  in  the  subjective  Progression  Progenerates  a  New 
human  psyche,  and  in  the  objective  Progression  progenerates 
the  corresponding  human  body.  And  soul  and  body  are 
united  in  a  new  man,  the  father  of  a  new  race.  And  the 
obedient  Divine  Ps^'che  is  Pneumatically  regenerated.  And 
so  the  great  Procession  continues  to  its  completion  to  repeat 
the  steps  taken  by  our  own  world  in  its  great  Procession. 

THE  ADAMIC  SOMA. 

7.  The  Soma  of  Adam  does  not  belong  to  the  second  realm 
of  existence  as  does  the  creature  Nature  but  to  the  Third. 
Adam's  Soma  existentially  transcends  Nature  b}'  one  realm; 
it  is  Nature  reduced  to  a  microcosm  and  transformed  by  the 
involution  of  a  higher  or  human  element  into  it.  It  will  be 
recalled  that  Adam's  soul  and  body  were  respectively  gen- 
erated in  the  subjective  and  objective  Progressions  of  the 
Second  Divine  Psj^chosic  Procession.  They  were  therefore 
co-ordinate  Products — the  subjective  product  being  one  realm 
higher  than  the  objective.  They  were  counterparts  the  one 
of  the  other.  The  Soma  was  produced  by  the  downward 
metamorphosis  of  the  soul  (or  psyche)  ;  or  the  soul  by  the 
upward  matamorphosis  of  the  body.  Of  course  it  is  under- 
stood that  the  Divine  Psychosic  Procession  originated  in  the 


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subjective  Progression  and  consequently  the  soul  was  not 
prepared  for  the  body  but  the  body  for  the  soul.  The 
Adamic  soul  and  body  though  separated  by  a  realm  have  a 
one  to  one  correspondence;  the  soma  is  the  objective  side 
(outside)  of  the  soul;  and  embraces  just  so  many  orders 
of  existence  as  the  Psyche  orders  of  being.  The  soma  was 
made  to  measure  and  exactly  fits  the  soul.  In  the  completion 
of  the  Pontal  Procession  the  soma  is  not  wrapped  as  a  carnal 
vestment  about  the  Psyche,  but  united  without  fusion  (order 
for  order)  with  it — as  outside  with  inside.  The  soul  and 
body  of  Adam  constitute  the  individual  man  and  cannot 
therefore  be  normally  separated;  but  on  the  contrary  the 
soma  is  to  be  raised  from  realm  to  realm  as  the  soul  ascends 
towards  its  maker.  The  functions  of  the  soma  can  be 
reflected  adequately  only  in  terms  of  its  relations  to  Nature. 
It  will  readily  be  recalled  that  Nature  is  the  orderly  product 
of  the  objective  Progression  of  the  First  Divine  Psychosic 
Procession;  in  the  co-ordinate  subjective  Progression  the 
Divine  Psyche  rises  through  the  six  orders  of  self-cognition — 
from  self-intuition  to  self-reciproception  (inclusive).  This 
inner  orderly  progression  of  thinking  or  cognizing  the  self 
has  its  outer  or  objective  progression  in  the  creation  of 
Nature.  Now  the  Divine  Psyche  in  his  Primal  estate  is 
Conscious  Divine  Psychical  Being  and  therefore  must  in  order 
to  achieve  self-conscious  differentiate  himself  into  conjugal 
subjective-objective  Divine  Psychical  Being.  There  was 
involved  in  him  by  Divine  generation  the  sex-distinction  (in 
potence),  of  his  Pneumatical  Parents;  and  this  sex-potence  is 
actualized  in  the  First  Divine  Psychosic  Procession — which 
is  a  self-evolutional  or  a  self-inversional  Procession,  culmi- 
nating in  an  adolescent  and  moral  self-consciousness.  The 
conscious  orderly  inner  realization  of  self  has  its  outer  coun- 
terpart in  the  orderly  creation  of  Nature;  but  since  this 
conscious  realization  of  the  self  is  predicated  on  the  orderly 
cognition  of  self.  Nature  may  be  defined  as  the  ordered  expres- 
sion of  the  Divine  Psychical  mind  (thought,  feeling  and  will). 


88        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

In  tlic  Divine  Psyche's  generation  of  the  human  soma,  Nature 
is  lifted  into  the  Third  Realm  of  existence;  and  united  with 
human  psychical  being,  or  with  Pneumatical  Being  lowered  to 
the  Third  realm.  The  soma  is  at  once  the  human  psyche 
metamorphosed  downward  and  Nature  upwardly  matamor- 
phosed  and  is  therefore  the  mediator  between  the  two.  But 
all  mediation  involves  a  Procession ;  and  therefore  the  Soma- 
ticosis  mediates  between  the  human  Psychosis  and  the  Cos- 
micosis.  Which  Procession,  the  higher  or  the  lower,  the 
Psychical  or  the  Somatical,  originates  or  superinduces  the 
other.?  Obviously  the  latter.  The  Psyche  is  shut  up  within 
its  carnal  self;  it  turns  its  outside  to  Nature;  and  therefore 
can  hold  no  communication  with  the  cosmos  except  through  its 
physical  organs. 

If  Adam  through  his  Somatical  side  is  energized  by  and 
energizes  the  Cosmicosis,  he  is  on  his  Psychical  side  immedi- 
ately energized  by  the  Divine  Psyche;  and  he  therefore 
becomes  increasingly  conscious  that  Nature  is  the  word  of 
God  to  man — which  fruits  on  the  completion  of  his  First 
Psychosic  Procession  in  his  thorough  preparation  to  intuit, 
behold  and  commune  with  God  as  self-revealed  in  His  eter- 
nally begotten  Son.  In  self-subjection  to  the  will  of  God 
Adam  Negates  the  Desire  provoked  from  below  and  therein 
achieves  complete  dominion  over  his  soma.  He  is  Divine 
Psychically,  Eve  human  Psychically,  and  Nature  human  ani- 
mistically  regenerated.  Adam  actualizes  his  Divine  Psychical 
being  as  he  completely  reproduces  himself  in  his  Son  (imme- 
diate offspring),  and  this  Great  Procession  transforms  his 
human  Psychical  being  into  Divine  Psychical  being  and  his 
Soma  into  human  Psychical  being.  His  Pneumatical  Regen- 
eration transforms  Adam's  Divine  Psychical  being  into  Pneu- 
matical Being,  and  his  human  Psychical  into  Divine  Psychical 
being  and  Adam  is  translated  into  the  presence  of  God,  whence 
he  completes  his  ministry  to  the  Church  on  Earth  as  herein- 
before set  forth. 


PART  IV. 

CHRISTIANITY  THE   PROGRESSIVE    EX- 
PRESSION OF  ETERNAL  LAW. 

"Unto  the  woman  He  said,  I  will  greatly  multiply  thy  sor- 
row and  thy  conception ;  in  sorrow  thou  shalt  bring  forth 
children;  and  thou  shalt  be  subject  to  thy  husband,  and  he 
shall  rule  over  thee."  "And  unto  Adam  He  said,  Because 
thou  hast  hearkened  to  the  voice  of  thy  wife,  and  has  eaten 
of  the  tree,  of  which  I  commanded  thee,  saying.  Thou  shalt 
not  eat  of  it ;  cursed  is  the  ground  for  thy  sake ;  in  sorrow 
shalt  thou  eat  of  it  all  the  days  of  thy  life." 

1.  The  utter  lack  of  conformity  of  the  above  theorized 
History  of  Man,  based  on  the  Hypothesis  of  Adam's  loyal 
passage  through  the  Ethical  Psychosis,  with  his  actual  his- 
tory, abundantly  establishes  the  "Fall  of  Adam,"  as  an  indis- 
putable fact ;  and  therein  corroborates  the  Bible  account. 
We  might  well  afford  to  rest  our  case  here.  But  Sin  is  the 
foundational  fact  of  Christianity ;  for  if  there  were  no  real 
Fall,  there  was  then  no  necessity  for  the  incarnation  of  the 
Son  of  God  in  the  Son  of  Man,  and  Christianity  is  reduced  to 
naught  but  a  beautiful  though  eviscerated  system  of  morals. 
Therefore  we  shall  not  omit  to  theorize  or  rationalize  sin  and 
its  entrance  into  the  world.  This  our  scheme  of  thouffht 
enables  us  to  do  with  all  the  cogency  of  a  mathematical  dem- 
onstration. Let  us  first  review  in  relation  to  each  other  the 
methods  of  Generation  and  Progeneration,  of  creation  and 
procreation — that  we  may  the  more  readily  see  the  Fall  of 
Adam  in  its  Psychosic  Procession. 

2.  To  Distinguish  Generation  from  Progeneration.  God, 
the  Self-conscious  Pneuma,  generates  the  Divine  Psyche  and 
the  Divine  Psyche  generates  the  Human  or  Adamic  Psyche; 
and  Regenerate  Adam  Progenerates  his  human  Psychical 
Son.  The  Generational  Process  is  analytical,  or  projec- 
tional,  and  conforms  in  mode  with  the  second  step  of  the 


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Antithetical  Procession ;  the  Progenerational  Process  is  like- 
wise analytical,  or  projectional,  but  conforms  in  mode  with 
the  Diathetical  Procession.  The  same  relation  holds  of  the 
respective  Synthetical  steps.  In  the  lowering  of  His  Being 
in  the  Divine  Psyche,  God,  the  self-conscious  Pneuma,  by 
self-evolution  differentiates  Himself  into  potential  Filial 
objective  Being  and  into  potential  parental  subjective  Being, 
and  projects  the  potential  Filial  objective  Being  down  to  and 
through  the  First  Focal  point  (zero)  a  distance  equal  to  that 
of  the  antefocal  process.  In  the  passage  through  the  Focal 
Point  the  Projected  objective  Being  empties  itself  of  the  last 
vestige  of  Pneumatical  Being  and  a  new  and  lower  realm  of 
Being  is  generated,  namely,  the  Divine  Psychical.  In  like 
manner  the  self-conscious  Divine  Psyche  generates  the  third 
and  lowest  Realm  of  Being — the  Adamic  Psyche. 

3.  Now  regenerate  Adam,  Divine  Psychically  self-conscious, 
can  only  project  his  potential  human  Psychical  offspring 
down  to  Focal  Point  (zero)  ;  that  is,  he  is  able  merely  to 
reduce  his  human  Psychical  being  to  an  unconscious  embryo ; 
he  cannot  project  it  below  the  Focal  Point  and  therein  gen- 
erate a  Fourth  Realm  of  Being.  Adam  merely  multiplies 
his  human  Psychical  being  in  his  offspring.  Creation  and 
Procreation  are  discriminated  by  the  same  differentiating 
principle.  The  Divine  Psyche  raises  the  Absolute  Naught 
up  to  the  Focal  Point  (zero),  creating  space;  and  up  through 
the  Focal  Point,  progressively  creating  the  rising  orders  of 
Nature.  Next  the  Divine  Psyche,  now  self-conscious  and 
^therefore  an  Ethical  Agent,  obediently  raises  Nature  up  to 
the  Focal  Point  (zero),  thereby  reducing  it  to  an  embryo; 
and  up  through  the  Focal  Point  to  its  necessary  limit  therein 
progressively  creating  the  Adamic  Soma — the  microcosm 
sublimated  or  transformed.  Existence  raised  to  the  Third 
Realm  meets  Being  lowered  to  the  Third  Realm ;  and  the  two 
co-products  are  united  as  soul  and  body,  as  inside  and  out- 
side, as  subjective  and  objective,  the  body  as  the  perfect 
counterpart  of  the  Soul.     Now  Adam  can  reduce  his  body 


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merely  to  the  Focal  Point  (zero),  therein  reducing  it  to  a 
somatical  Embryo ;  he  cannot  by  any  means  pass  this  embryo 
up  through  the  Focal  Point  into  a  Fourth  Realm  of  Exist- 
ence ;  for  the  Diathetical  Procession  has  no  Focal  Point,  the 
zero  being  the  extreme  limit  of  the  Projection. 

4.  It  is  to  be  noted  that  the  Projectival  Procession  is  the 
exact  measure  of  its  Complementary  Procession ;  for  the 
Synthetical  Procession  embraces  and  reunites  the  terminal 
products  of  the  Analysis.  The  Synthetical  Procession, 
when  both  subject  and  object  are  reciprocal  Agents,  may  be 
designated  by  different  terms,  as  we  may  wish  to  place  the 
emphasis  now  on  the  subject,  now  on  the  object.  When  we 
would  put  the  emphasis  on  the  subject  or  initiator  of  the 
Analytical  step  the  Procession  may  be  distinguished  as  Pro- 
jectival; when  on  the  object,  as  the  centrifugal  Procession. 
When  in  the  Synthetical  step  the  emphasis  is  to  be  placed 
on  the  subject  or  initiator  Avho  seeks  to  recover  or  retrieve 
the  projected  being,  the  Procession  may  be  distinguished  as 
the  Recuperatival ;  when  on  the  object-agent,  as  the  Cen- 
tripetal. 

5.  If  then  the  Projectival  Procession  measures  exactly 
the  Reach  of  the  Recuperatival  Procession  could  God  have 
through  the  sole  mediation  of  His  Eternally  begotten  Son, 
the  Divine  Psyche,  recovered  to  Himself  fallen  Adam?  To 
answer  this,  we  must  clearly  see  what  Adam's  fall  involved. 
Adam  was  duly  prepared  for  entrance  into  the  Ethical  Psy- 
chosis by  his  instinctively  obedient  Passage  through  the 
First  Psychosic  Procession,  wherein  he  achieved  not  only 
self-consciousness,  but  also  the  evolution  of  himself  into  a 
moral  estate  characterized  by  the  presence  and  active  agency 
of  all  the  simple  virtues.  His  fall  of  logical  necessity 
involved  the  antithetical  Negation.  That  is,  in  Falling 
Adam  not  only  passed  his  moral  nature  down  to  the  Ethical 
Focal  Point  or  zero  (the  embryonical  estate),  but  down 
through  the  Focal  Point  to  an  immoral  Estate,  the  anti- 
thesis or  opposite  of  that  whence  he  fell.     In  descending  to 


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the  moral  Focal  Point  he  recovered  morally  his  primal  Pro- 
jectiA'al  Estate,  but  with  an  opposite  Ethical  potentiality; 
and  in  passing  through  and  below  zero  the  simple  virtuous 
estates  are  transformed  into  Evil  Estates.  He  is  thus  an 
entire  Procession  below  his  Projectival  Estate.  The  Divine 
Psyche  mediating  the  Pneumaticosic  Recuperatival  Proces- 
sion is  too  short  by  one  entire  Procession  to  reach  fallen  man. 
God  must  by  the  Eternal  Laws  of  His  own  Being  lengthen 
His  Recuperatival  Procession  by  the  addition  of  a  perfect, 
sinless  human  Ps^^chosic  Procession.  This  can  be  legiti- 
mately accomplished  in  the  incarnation  of  the  Son  of  God, 
the  Divine  Psyche,  in  a  sinless,  holy  "second  Adam" — the 
Moral  Man,  the  Genus  Homo. 

6.  Adam's  sin  consisted  in  his  wilful,  premature  entrance 
into  the  Reproductival  Psychosis,  which  entailed  three  penal 
consequences:  (1)  His  own  death;  (2)  the  death  of  his  off- 
spring, and  (3)  the  ruin  of  Nature. 

7.  In  yielding  to,  instead  of  normally  negating,  the  sexual 
"Desire  of  the  Soma,"  he  abnormally  lowered  in  himself  his 
divinely  generated  being  and  subordinated  it  under  the 
anima,  or  living  principle  of  his  soma,  and  thereby  shut  out 
God  from  his  vision.  Because  Adam  alienated  himself  from 
God,  God  exiled  him  from  communion  and  fellowship  with 
himself.  Under  no  circumstances  or  conditions  are  the 
judgments  of  God  capricious  or  arbitrary;  on  the  contrary 
they  are  always  founded  upon  the  eternally  necessary  prin- 
ciples of  absolute  truth  and  righteousness. 

8.  But  how  was  his  unborn  offspring  involved  in  the  neces- 
sary penalty  consequent  on  his  forbidden  and  premature 
entrance  into  the  Reproductival  Psychosis.?  Being  had 
reached  in  Psychical  Adam  the  lowest  normally  possible 
realm.  It  has  been  demonstrated  that  the  descending  scale 
of  Being  and  the  ascending  scale  of  Existence  had  met  and 
united  without  fusion  in  Adam ;  and  that  Adam  did  not  pos- 
sess, without  regeneration,  the  power  to  utter  or  project  his 
generated  psychical  being,  in  its  unbroken  entirely,  in  off- 


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spring.  The  premature  begetting  of  offspring,  therefore 
involved  on  his  part  some  kind  of  fissional  process  of  psychical 
propagation.  In  leaving  himself  poorer  it  progressively 
impoverished  his  offspring  to  the  remotest  generation — in 
respect  both  of  the  soul  and  the  body. 

9.  The  ruin  of  the  Natural  World  followed  for  this  reason. 
Adam's  wilful  subordination  of  his  psychical  being  under  the 
vital  principle  of  his  soma  enthroned  the  latter.  But  the 
raising  of  the  Soma  to  full  participation  in  the  immortality 
of  the  regenerated  Psyche  was  conditioned  on  its  complete 
subordination  under  the  psychical  being  of  Adam.  In  con- 
sequence of  the  fall  of  Adam,  the  Soma  and  the  subjected 
Psyche  found  their  Common  Life  in  the  Natural  World. 
This  resulted  in  the  hypostasis  of  the  Natural  World;  and 
Adam  became  a  Godless  sensualist.  But  the  Divine  Psyche 
in  the  generation  of  Adam  placed  man  between  himself  and 
Nature.  Adam  was  thus  raised  into  the  mediator  between 
the  Divine  Psyche  and  Nature.  Now  Nature  was  destined 
to  be  transcendentally  raised  into  the  highest  realm  of  Being 
through  the  freely  obedient  mediation  of  Man.  Adam's 
moral  defection  abrupted  the  destined  elevation  of  Nature 
into  the  next  higher  realm;  and  man  became  an  insulator 
instead  of  a  mediator  between  the  Divine  Psyche  in  his 
transcendental  energizings  and  Nature.  Without  tran- 
scendental attraction  and  active  co-agency  Nature  became 
top  heavy,  fell  with  Adam  and  devolution  and  disintegration 
set  in.  Thus  the  total  collapse  of  Man  and  of  Nature 
impended.  But  for  the  Divine  intervention  eternally 
decreed  Nature  would  have  reduced  itself  to  the  absolute 
Naught. 

10.  And  herein  lies  the  one  theory  of  the  existence  of  evil 
in  the  world.  Nature  whether  as  the  mere  creature  or  as 
sublimated  and  epitomized  in  the  Adamic  Soma  is  not  only 
innocent  of  an  inherent  principle  of  levitation  but  possesses 
the  opposite  or  contrary  principle  of  gravitation  toward  the 
absolute  Naught,  whence  it  sprang.     And  the  strength  of 


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this  devolutional  principle  is  proportional  to  the  height  of 
the  realm  of  existence  it  has  attained.  The  peccability  of 
Adam  lay  in  his  soma.  In  Adam's  original  sinless  estate 
there  was  enfolded  in  his  somatic  constitution  the  possibility 
'of  sin.  That  is,  Adam's  liability  to  sin  lay  in  his  flesh.  And 
this  seems  to  be  the  Doctrine  of  the  Apostle  Paul.  A  doc- 
trine which  in  no  wise  involves  the  Divine  responsibility  for 
the  presence  of  evil  in  the  \k  orld ;  on  Adam  alone  rests  that 
responsibility.  For  Good  and  Evil  have  Normal  Processional 
analogues  in  physical  levitation  and  gravitation.  The  latent 
tendency  of  all  physical  bodies  to  fall  toward  the  earth,  back 
into  mere  matter,  is  divinely  implanted  in  Nature  only  to  be 
overcome  or  negated.  The  tree  grows,  the  bird  flies,  man 
stands  or  walks  by  overcoming  his  gravitation  toward  the 
earth.  So  in  the  benevolent  plan  of  God  Adam  was  dowered 
with  the  psychical  principle  of  Levitation,  inherent  in  each 
realm  of  lowered  being,  toward  his  divine  source.  Thus 
arose  the  conflict  between  the  flesh  and  the  soul  which  condi- 
tioned the  Ethical  Psychosis.  And  as  "being"  of  any  realm 
is  stronger  than  "existence"  of  any  realm  Adam  was  under 
no  necessity  to  yield  to  the  "Desire  of  the  Flesh."  The  prin- 
ciple of  evil  inherently  latent  in  the  soma  existed  but  to  be 
negated;  and  Adam  had  the  divinely  given  ability  to  win  the 
victory  over  his  existential  nature.  God  therefore  in  no  real 
sense  bears  the  responsibility  for  the  actual  existence  of  evil 
in  the  world.  Adam  deliberately,  and  with  full  knowledge  of 
its  consequences  to  himself  at  the  least,  chose  to  introduce  it 
into  this  wonderfully  beautiful  world,  the  very  work  of  the 
Divine  hand. 

11.  Man  lowered  his  being  in  the  Fall,  and  subordinated 
his  psychical  to  his  somatical  Reproductival  organismic  sys- 
tem ;  thus  alienating  himself  from  God.  There  lay  in  fallen 
man  no  power  of  self-restoration.  And  God  could  not 
because  of  His  immaculate  holiness  save  man  in  his  sin.  If 
man  therefore  is  to  be  saved,  he  is  to  be  saved  from  sin ;  and 
that  involves  the  great  central  truth  of  the  Gospel,  namely, 


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that  the  mode  or  manner  of  man's  salvation  must  faithfully 
express  the  Divine  Moral  Character;  else  God  would  be  self- 
involved  in  sin.  Thus  we  find  the  burden  of  the  Apostle  Paul 
in  his  letter  to  the  Romans  to  be  the  vindication  of  the  right- 
eousness of  God's  plan  of  salvation  through  "Faith  on  Jesus 
Christ." 

12.  The  Bible  Doctrine  of  sin  may  be  brought  into  bolder 
relief  by  the  rational  exposure  of  the  fallacies  that  lie  con- 
cealed in  the  several  worldly  conceptions  (or  rather  miscon- 
ceptions) of  sin.  Now  it  is  well  to  note  that  the  Bible  Doc- 
trine of  sin  has  been  reflected  above  and  rationally  established, 
notwithstanding  the  somewhat  prevalent  theological  Dictum 
that  "to  rationalize  sin  is  to  justify  it."  God  in  his  won- 
drous Providence  has  permitted  scepticism  in  all  its  forms 
and  disguises  to  thrive  for  a  time  that  the  Church  may  be 
provoked  to  the  most  strenuous  efforts  to  overcome  all  such 
heretical  teachings.  As  witness  the  occasional  causes  that 
called  forth  the  impregnable  fortress  of  Truth,  the  Pauline 
Theology. 

13.  There  are  three  worldly  Conceptions  of  Sin,  that  may 
somewhat  Arbitrarily  be  distinguished  as :  ( 1 )  The  Bald 
Evolutional  Doctrine  of  Sin;  (2)  the  Deprivatal  Doctrine 
of  Sin;  and  (3)  the  Pantheistical  Doctrine  of  Sin.  These, 
it  is  believed,  comprehend  all  the  Theories  of  sin  thus  far 
advanced  by  the  sin-blinded  mind  of  fallen  man.  They  will 
now  be  considered  in  order  and  logically  disposed  of. 

14.  The  Evolutional  Doctrine  of  Sin.  The  bald  Evolu- 
tionalist  holds,  of  course,  that  man  is  the  highest  product  of 
extraneously  unaided  evolution.  Man  as  an  individual,  or 
as  the  genus,  is  at  any  given  stage,  as  good  as  he  can  be. 
Man  may  be  in  his  ascending  stages  good,  better,  best;  or 
retrogressively  he  may  descend  the  ascended  scale  but  cannot 
fall  below  the  lowest  rung.  There  is,  in  the  thought  of  the 
evolutionist,  no  proper  descending  scale — no  bad  (ill  or 
evil),  worse,  worst.  Now  this  Doctrine  of  Sin — if  a  doc- 
trine that  denies  the  possibility  of  human  sin  can  be  fitly 

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so  distinguished — is  the  logical  consequence  of  the 
evolutional  theory  of  creation.  The  protagonist  of  this 
hypothesis  postulates,  without  logical  authorization  or  con- 
sistence, a  Primordial  Protoplasmic  life.  The  burden  rests 
on  him  to  justify  in  reason  his  postulate.  This  he  cannot 
do.  And  furthermore  the  theory  advanced  in  these  pages  of 
creation  and  of  human  generation  stands,  it  is  confidently 
believed,  irrefutably  grounded  in  enlightened  human  reason, 
and  unequivocally  confirmed  by  the  Bible  account.  There- 
fore the  evolutional  doctrine  of  sin  falls  with  the  evolutional 
hypothesis  on  which  it  is  grounded. 

15.  The  Second,  or  Privatal,  Doctrine  of  Sin  has  not  even 
a  quasi  rational  principle  to  rest  on.  It  posits  the  relation 
between  good  and  evil  to  be  that  between  heat  and  cold, 
abstractly  considered.  From  this  viewpoint  cold  is  but  the 
partial  or  total  absence  of  heat.  The  total  absence  of  good 
in  any  person  would  reduce  his  moral  life  down  to  but  not 
possibly  below  zero.  By  consequence  no  greater  punishment 
than  annihilation  could  overtake  the  most  contumacious 
sinner.  Furthermore  this  theory  involves,  in  the  case  of  the 
election  of  the  lesser  of  two  goods,  the  validation  of  the  lesser 
good  without  taking  into  the  account  the  immoral  rejection 
of  the  higher  good.  No  possible  answer  could  be  offered  to 
this  objection  that  would  not  implicate  the  practical  denial 
of  the  freedom  of  the  human  will  and  the  non-existence  of  the 
human  conscience.  Again,  the  analogy  is  false  and  the  con- 
clusion fallacious.  A  subjective  and  an  objective  process 
are  not  thus  comparable.  Heat  and  cold  abstractively  con- 
sidered are  diathetives ;  but  when  lifted  into  the  subjective 
realm  they  become  antitheses  or  real  opposites.  Heat  is 
then  above  and  cold  below  zero  (the  body-temperature)  ;  they 
are  now  related  to  each  other  as  Plus  to  Minus.  Cold  is  as 
real  to  the  physical  organism  as  heat ;  and  as  thus  subjectified 
they  perfectly  symbolize  the  relation  between  good  and  evil. 
The  fallacy  in  the  Privatal  conception  of  sin  is  exposed  and 
the  dangerous  Doctrine  effectually  disposed  of.      But  we  now 


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approach  the  last  and  most  insidious  of  the  worldly  Doc- 
trines of  Sin. 

16.  The  Pantheistic  Doctrine — held  by  some  ministers  of 
the  gospel,  disguised  as  "the  Fall  upward,"  "the  Ethical 
Birth  of  the  human  Race,"  or  the  "evolution  of  the  human 
conscience."  This  Doctrine  avowedly  conceives  Evil  as 
the  opposite  of  Good ;  and  thus  far  coincides  with  the  Bible 
Doctrine.  The  pantheist  correctly  holds  that  evil  is  related 
to  good  as  the  minus  to  the  plus ;  and  then  falls  into  the 
grievous  error  of  applying  subjectively  the  objectively  scien- 
tific fact  that  plus  is  the  product  of  minus  times  minus. 
From  this  false  procedure  he  logically  argues  that  since  a 
given  simple  quantity  must  pass  down  to  and  through  zero  to 
reach  the  minus  estate  and  thence  up  to  and  through  zero  to 
attain  the  plus  estate,  so  man  (as  individual  or  genus)  can 
achieve  a  Positive  Righteousness  only  by  an  actual  passage 
down  into  and  up  from  the  corresponding  Negative  Estate; 
in  other  words,  man  can  embody  the  good  only  through  the 
actual  Commission  and  Repudiation  of  Sin.  Herein  lies  hid- 
den a  dangerous  fallacy — the  very  fallacy  that  beguiled  our 
first  mother  in  the  "Garden  of  Eden."  "And  the  serpent 
said  unto  the  woman,  ye  shall  not  surely  die;  for  God  doth 
know  that  in  the  day  that  ye  eat  thereof;  then  your  eyes 
shall  be  opened ;  and  ye  shall  be  as  gods,  knowing  good  and 
evil."  In  this  historic  example  the  great  Adversary  veiled 
himself  in  the  serpent ;  in  the  modern  instance  he  disguised 
himself  as  an  angel  of  intellectual  light  in  the  person  of  per- 
haps the  profoundest  philosopher  that  civilization  has  in  its 
age-long  course  produced.  Can  it  possibly  be  without  deep- 
est significance  that  the  highest  reach  of  the  sin-blinded  human 
mind  confirms  the  Doctrine  of  the  Adversary.''  He  rethought 
the  very  thought  of  Satan.  Can  man  think  the  thought  of 
God  without  divine  fellowship,  or  the  thought  of  Satan  with- 
out Satanic  fellowship.?  Let  us  rationally  expose  this  fallacy. 
The  Analogy  is  again  false.  The  subjective  and  the  objec- 
tive processes  are  here  (as  in  the  last  case)  non-comparable. 


98        THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

The  fallacious  conclusion  is  reached  by  the  failure  sharply  to 
discriminate  between  the  subjective  and  the  objective  opera- 
tions of  the  human  mind;  between  the  agent  and  the  object 
on  which  the  mental  action  operates.  In  theorizing  the  cir- 
cular process  wherein  a  given  simple  quantity  is  transformed 
into  a  minus  quantity  and  thence  transformed  into  a  plus 
quantity,  the  self  of  the  thinker  does  not  objectively  pass 
down  to  and  through  zero  into  the  minus  estate  and  thence 
up  to  and  through  zero  into  the  plus  estate.  Let  the  mind 
be  distinguished  from  the  soul  as  its  function,  then  it  may  be 
said  that  the  mind  in  its  objective  process  accompanies  or 
ideally  moves  the  object  operated  on  through  its  entire  circular 
process ;  and  thus  mediates  the  birth  of  the  soul  into  a  higher 
psychical  estate.  It  has  been  demonstrated  that  in  his 
hypothetically  successful  passage  through  the  Ethical  Psy- 
chosis our  first  parent  was  constrained  to  proceed  through  a 
morally  rational  process  which  though  of  higher  order  was  in 
perfect  analogy  with  the  rational  process  wherein  the  plus- 
minus  genecept  is  achieved.  Temptation  overcome  does  not 
involve  guilt,  but  quite  the  contrary.  Even  the  incarnate 
Son  "was  tempted  in  all  points  like  as  we  are  and  yet  without 
sin."  It  is  the  normal  office  of  temptation  to  open  our  eyes 
to  the  "knowledge  of  good  and  evil;"  and  it  is  the  necessary 
office  (function)  of  temptation  yielded  to,  to  close  the  moral 
eye  to  "the  knowledge  of  good  and  evil" — to  j^bort  the  con- 
science. The  Ethical  Psychosis  reviewed  will  disclose  the 
fact  that  the  hypothetically  obedient  Adam  passed  himself 
only  in  the  thought-process  down  to  and  through  zero,  and 
up  to  and  through  zero  by  the  deliberated  rejection  of  the 
evil.  The  Ethical  Psychosis  was  completed  in  a  Parturi- 
tional  act.  Adam  was  hypothetically  born  an  ethical  being 
knowing  good  and  evil,  loving  the  good  and  hating  the 
evil.  The  conscience  theretofore  functioning  implicitly  was 
enthroned  above  the  will;  and  then  and  thereafter  functioned 
Explicitly.  There  was  no  abortion  but  a  perfectly  legitimate 
Parturition — a  veritable  enthronement  of  conscience.      But, 


•     THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.        99 

as  has  been  demonstrated,  Adam  yielded  to  the  temptation ; 
and  therein  actually  passed  himself  as  subject-object  down 
through  the  moral  zero  into  the  morally  minus  estate — into 
an  estate  the  moral  opposite  of  that  of  the  Divine  Psyche. 
He  thus  became  the  embodiment  of  evil,  or  evil  personalized. 
Evil  is  in  essence  personal  as  is  its  antithesis  good.  Adam 
morally  died  in  the  commission  of  sin.  He  could  be  lifted 
out  of  this  estate  of  moral  death  only  by  a  moral  resurrection. 
Could  he  have  resurrected  himself?  No,  for  to  eradicate  or 
extirpate  sin,  he  must  have  projected  it  forth  from  his  high- 
est self ;  this  he  had  become  unable  to  do  even  in  thought,  for 
he  knew  not  good  and  evil;  evil  was  to  him  good  and  good 
evil;  he  could  not  but  project  evil  in  his  actions,  and  evil 
objectified  in  conduct  involves  its  corresponding  subjective 
validation.  Like  good  evil  grows  by  what  it  feeds  on ;  it 
takes  root  downward  as  it  bears  its  poisonous  fruit  upward. 
The  highest  worldly  Doctrine  of  Sin  is  thus  in  its  order  suc- 
cessfully set  aside  as  utterly  untenable;  and  the  Bible  Doc- 
trine, heretofore  positively  is  herein  negatively  affirmed. 
It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  say  that  Christianity  rests  as 
superstructive  on  the  Bible  Doctrine  of  Sin  as  its  logical  and 
actual  foundation.  Destroy  this  foundation  and  Chris- 
tianity collapses — nothing  but  a  sublime  yet  exotic  and 
therefore  impracticable  system  of  ethics  remains.  And  yet 
there  are  not  a  few  ministers  of  the  Gospel  (?)  that  secretely 
or  avowedly  reject  this  fundamental  Doctrine  of  the  Bible, 
teaching  implicitly  or  explicitly  that  the  sin  of  our  first 
father  was  a  Myth,  or  a  Fall  upwards — a  legitimate  birth 
into  the  moral  world  or  a  veritable  and  necessary  self-evolu- 
tion into  the  Ethical  Life.  "Cursed  be  he  that  doeth  the 
work  of  the  Lord  deceitfully." 


100      THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

GOD'S  GRACIOUS  YET  BOUNDEN  PROVISION  FOR 
THE  RECOVERY  OF  THE  LOST  WORLD. 

1.  It  has  been  irrefutably  demonstrated  that  a  failure  on 
the  part  of  hvpothetically  regenerate  Adam  to  forestall  the 
abrupture  at  anj^  point  of  the  Great  Circular  Reproductival 
Procession  would  have  been  a  most  heinous  sin  against  God 
and  his  offspring. 

2.  Now,  it  is  no  irreverence  to  affirm  that  when  God  in  His 
wondrous  Love  undertook  to  raise  the  creature  into  sonship. 
He  did  not  overlook  the  adventurous  or  contingent  features 
involved  in  the  solution  of  the  greatest  problem,  that  up  to 
this  stage,  could  confront  omnicient  omnipotence,  namely,  the 
free  agency  of  Man.  It  is  not  irreverent  even  to  affirm  that 
foreseeing  Adam's  possible  or  actual  defection  He  was  utterly 
unable  (legitimately)  to  prevent  or  forestall  it. 

3.  But  was  not  God  foreseeing  the  Fall  under  moral  obli- 
gation to  Himself  but  not  to  fallen  man  or  to  the  lapsed  and 
unrestrained  creature  to  make  adequate  provision  for  the 
recovery  of  the  lost  world?  UnquestionabW  yes.  But  it  is 
not  to  be  understood  that  moral  obligation  resting  on  God 
in  any  sense  involves  restraint  or  constraint  of  His  absolute 
Freedom.  Moral  obligation  and  perfect  moral  freedom  meet 
and  unite  in  the  Divine  Character  and  are  but  different 
aspects  of  his  Ethical  Being. 

4.  But  granting  that  God  is  self-bound  to  make  an  ade- 
quate provision  for  the  recovery  or  retrieval  of  the  lost 
world  to  Himself,  is  He  able  to  effectuate  his  moral  obliga- 
tion? Yes,  otherwise  the  Divine  Being  would  be  divided 
against  Himself ;  and  the  unity  and  integrity  of  His  Being 
would  be  annulled,  which  is  absurd. 

5.  Now  are  there  more  ways  or  methods  than  one  whereby 
He  can  make  this  provision?  Let  us  show  the  inadequacy 
of  all  conceivable  ways  but  one;  and  then  the  complete  ade- 
quacy of  that.  If  we  fail  not  in  this,  we  shall  have  achieved 
a  rational  demonstration. 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.       101 

6.  Now  God's  Processions  are  always  Progressive  and 
never  retrogressive.  We  may  then  conclude  that  He  can 
not  again  on  this  planet  create  a  human  Soma — that  Pro- 
cession having  been  forever  transcended.  The  Procession  at 
which  He  has  now  arrived  comprises  three  Progressions  and 
their  respective  products  must  be:  (1)  Divine  Psychical 
being;  (2)  human  Psychical  being,  and  (3)  human  Animistic 
being  (existence). 

7.  It  is  too  obvious  to  argue  that  it  would  be  morally 
impossible  to  God  to  communicate  Divine  Psychical  being  to 
disobedient  Adam  or  his  adult  Son  (involved  in  sin)  and  that 
therefore  He  could  not  communicate  human  Psychical  being 
and  human  Animistic  being  respectfully  to  Eve  and  the 
Earth. 

8.  For  three  all  sufficient  reasons,  God  could  not  have  com- 
municated these  three  descending  co-products  to  any  given 
progenerated  foetal  life:  (1)  The  Recuperatival  Reach  had 
been  by  necessary  law  adjusted  to  communicate  the  Primal 
or  Conscious  Estates  of  the  descending  realms  of  being 
respectively  to  the  adult  man,  the  adult  woman  and  the 
Earth ;  it  could  not,  therefore,  span  the  additional  distance, 
so  to  say,  to  the  fcetal  life;  (2)  but  if  this  "distance"  could 
be  spanned,  the  three  co-products  could  not  be  united  and 
embodied  in  the  foetus ;  for  it  already  embodies  the  lower  two 
realms  of  being — the  human  Psychical  and  the  human  Ani- 
mistic; and  (3)  last  the  highest  product  could  not  morally 
be  incorporated  in  the  foetal  life  because  of  the  presence  in 
it  of  propagated  sin. 

9.  Now  suppose  God  could  legitimately  lengthen  the  sev- 
eral co-ordinate  Progressions  by  reducing  the  several 
co-products  or  realms  of  being  respectively  and  synchro- 
nously down  from  the  Primal  or  Conscious  Estate  to  the 
subconscious  or  embryonic  Estates,  why  may  not  these  co- 
products  (thus  reduced)  be  united  without  fusion  and  embod- 
ied in  the  unfertilized  unimpregnated  ovum — without  doing 
violence  to  the  moral  or  logical  laws  of  the  Divine  Being? 


102      THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

There  is  in  its  unrelated  self  no  reason  why  the  co-products 
might  not  thus  be  embodied  in  a  human  ovum. 

10.  But  would  such  an  incarnation  prove  to  be  an  alto- 
gether Adequate  Provision  for  the  recovery  of  the  lost  world.'' 
No,  for  the  being  communicated  in  regeneration  perfectly 
counterparts  the  next  lower  realm  (self-evolved)  given  in 
generation.  The  Divine  Psychical  being  communicated  must 
exactly  counterpart  Adam's  human  Psychical  being,  but  not 
that  of  the  triune  man — not  that  of  the  generic  man,  the  Son 
of  Man,  the  Genus  Homo.  Now,  the  Son  of  God,  the  Divine 
Psyche,  in  the  totality  of  his  being  alone  counterparts  com- 
pletely the  Son  of  Man.  Now,  then,  if  we  may  be  permitted 
to  postulate  the  adequate  self-sacrifice  of  God  and  the  freely 
loyal  Kenosis  of  the  Son  of  God,  we  shall  be  able  to  rationalize 
the  incarnation  of  the  Son  of  God  in  the  Son  of  Man — one 
mighty  to  save  lost  Man  and  the  Cosmos.  But  is  not  God 
limited  by  the  laws  of  His  own  Being — by  laws  that  He 
of  all  beings  can  least  afford  to  transgress?  Yes,  most 
assuredly.  But  may  there  not  be  a  higher  law  of  Being 
than  we  in  our  reflections  have  thus  far  explicated.''  Yes — 
the  law  of  Self-sacrifice,  the  major  limit  of  Love,  the  miracle 
of  Grace,  if  you  will ;  and  yet  the  crowning,  the  exalted  com- 
plement of  Law  that  completes  the  infinite  Fullness  of  the 
Divine  Being — the  fulfilment  of  Law  that  alone  can  com- 
plete His  transcendently  beautiful  character,  His  supreme 
glory. 

THE  INCARNATIONAL  PROCESSION. 
THE  FORMAL  PROCESS. 

(1)  The  Thesis:  The  Divine  Trinity  in  Holy  Counsel 
contemplating  the  Fall  of  Adam  and  the  impending  Collapse 
of  Creation,  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis — The  Posited  Complex  Estate  is  Nega- 
ted: The  Father  through  the  ministry  of  the  Holy  Spirit 
devolves  on  the  Eternally  Generated  Son  the  supreme  Com- 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.       103 

mission  to  recover  the  man-wrecked  works  of  His  hands. 
This  differentiates  God  into  the  three  persons  of  the  God- 
head with  respect  to  the  several  offices  they  are  to  discharge. 
This  an  Analysis.  The  utterly  loving  and  loyal  Son  without 
Ethical  deliberation  actionally  accepts  the  great  Commis- 
sion, which  in  its  Godward  side  effects  a  perfect  synthetical 
conspiracy  and  on  its  manward  side  issues  in  three  co-ordi- 
nate Projectional  Progressions  which  severally  pass  down 
to  and  through  their  respective  Primal  or  Conscious  Estates 
to  their  several  embryonical  or  subconscious  Estates.  The 
subjective  product  is  the  eternally  generated  Son  of  God 
reduced  to  an  embryo;  the  first  objective  product  is  the 
generic  human  psyche  reduced  to  an  embryo ;  and  the  second 
objective  is  the  generic  human  anima  reduced  to  an  embryo. 
That  is  the  subjective  product  is  the  Son  of  God  in  a  sense 
that  hypothetically  regenerate  Adam  was  not;  and  the  First 
objective  product  is  the  Son  of  Man  (the  genus  homo)  in  a 
sense  that  the  human  Psychical  Adam  was  not ;  and  the  second 
objective  product  is  the  generic  human  anima  in  a  sense  that 
Adam's  was  not.  The  subjective  is  in  embryo  the  Divine 
Psychical  Son  of  God  in  his  totality  of  being;  and  the  first 
objective  product  is  in  embryo  the  Son  of  Man  in  the  sense 
of  embracing  Adam,  Eve  and  their  Son — the  human  race 
progenerate;  and  the  second  objective  product  is  in  embryo 
the  generic  human  anima  in  the  sense  of  embracing  the  living 
somatic  principles  of  the  first  man  and  woman  and  their 
offspring  to  the  last  generation. 

The  Pontal  Procession  completes  itself  in  uniting  with- 
out fusion  the  several  co-products ;  the  embryonic  human 
psyche  is  embodied  in  the  embryonic  human  anima  and  the 
embryonic  Divine  Psyche  in  the  embryonic  human  psyche  and 
this  trinal  product  in  the  elect  ovum.  Therefore  the  final 
product  is  the  Theanthropos  in  embryo.  The  Son  of  God  (in 
posse)  and  at  the  same  time  the  Son  of  Man  (in  posse).  He  is 
in  himself  as  the  Son  of  Man,  all  humanity.  His  commission 
shall  not  then  be  to  progenerate  a  new  and  faultless  race,  but 


104      THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

to   recover   from   sin   unto   holiness   them   that   accept   their 
graciously  proffered  places  in  him. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  The  Synthesis  is  the  logical  comple- 
ment of  the  Analysis.  The  Analysis  functioned  in  the  projec- 
tion forth  of  the  several  co-ordinate  products  and  was  there- 
fore a  Procession  of  three  Progressions.  The  Syntliesis  must 
overcome  the  Analysis,  must  recover  or  "Recuperate"  the 
several  projected  products.  These  products  constitute  a 
trinal  embryo  embracing  three  realms  of  being — the  lowest 
or  Somatical  is  superimposed  upon  the  Human  Psychical  and 
the  Human  Psychical  upon  the  Divine  Psychical.  It  is  then 
in  respect  to  its  several  Realms  of  being  an  inverted  trinal 
embryo.  The  inversion  of  this  inversion  then  is  the  office  of 
the  complementary  synthesis.  But  the  inversion  of  this 
inversion  involves  the  Progressive  inversion  of  each  embry- 
onic Realm  of  being,  beginning  with  the  lowest  or  outmost 
and  ending  with  the  inmost  or  Divine  Psychical  realm.  And 
even  here  the  Synthetical  or  Recuperatival  Procession  is  but 
provisionally  complete.  It  was  God  who  sent  His  Son  to  be 
incarnated  in  the  Son  of  Man  and  His  Son  is  not  only  to  be 
raised  up  again  into  heaven,  but  he  is  also  to  bring  in  his 
train  the  Son  of  Man,  and  he  in  turn  to  draw  in  his  train  his 
redeemed  Church,  and  that  again  in  turn  to  be  followed  by  the 
transformed  Cosmos.  Let  us  reflect  in  a  general  way  these 
successive  Processions,  beginning  with  the  Gestational  Pro- 
cession. The  Foetal  Soma  answering  perfectly  to  the  gene- 
ric human  Psyche  (in  embryo),  which  it  at  once  counterparts 
and  embodies,  is  the  generic  human  soma  inverted.  Its  low- 
est order  of  existence  is  outmost  and  its  highest  order  inmost ; 
and  it  evolves  or  inverts  (turns  its  inside  out  and  its  outside 
in)  itself  in  the  Gestational  Procession  even  as  the  son  of 
hypothetically  obedient  Adam  did.  Parturition  completes 
this  Procession.  Within  this  Physical  Procession  the 
embraced  human  Psychical  embryo  synchronously  evolves 
out  of  the  subconscious  into  the  Primal  or  Conscious  Estate. 
This  is  only  the  individual  and  not  the  generic  consciousness. 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.      105 

Since  the  human  Psyche  only  as  generic  counterparts  the 
embodied  Divine  Psychical  embryo,  the  consciousness  of  the 
latter  cannot  emerge  save  as  the  former  achieves  its  generic 
consciousness.  As  the  body  lacks  merely  growth  and  devel- 
opment and  the  Divine  Psychical  being  can  emerge  only  as 
the  human  generic  consciousness  is  achieved,  we  may  give  our 
entire  attention  to  the  advancing  Processions  of  the  Human 
Psyche.  The  Holy  child  passes  the  first  several  Processions 
as  the  hypothetically  sinless  son  of  Adam  did.  In  the  pas- 
sage through  the  First  Human  Psychosic  Procession  he 
achieves  his  Filial  Self-consciousness  with  respect  to  his 
earthly  parents  and  enters  the  moral  Psychosis,  effecting  a 
triumphant  passage  through  it,  discharging  the  duties  of  a 
faultless  Son;  underlying  this  purely  human  Procession  and 
upwardly  energizing  and  thereby  exalting  it,  functions 
implicitly  the  Ethical  Procession  which  now  emerges  in 
explicit  functioning.  The  youth  passes  through  it  impecca- 
bly^ yielding  perfect  obedience  to  his  heavenly  Father.  Now 
He  hears  the  Divine  vocation  to  special  service  and  promptly 
responding  is  duly  inducted  into  the  most  exalted  office,  and 
abundantly  accredited  b}'  the  Holy  Spirit's  descent  upon 
him.  But  not  yet  does  he  know  himself  as  the  Son  of  Man, 
the  "Genus  Homo,"  much  less  as  the  Son  of  God.  He  is 
therefore  to  be  led  up  by  the  Holy  Spirit  unto  the  wilderness 
to  be  tempted  of  the  Adversary.  To  rationalize  this  tempta- 
tion it  is  necessary  to  differentiate  it  from  Adam's  Ethical 
Psychosis.  Adam  was  unregenerate  a  mere  man,  yet  poten- 
tially the  Father  of  the  Human  Race.  His  temptation  is 
prematurely  to  reproduce  himself  in  offspring  and  thereby  to 
actualize  the  Genus  Homo  in  humanity.  The  Son  of  Man, 
the  real  Genus  Homo,  is  as  yet  conscious  of  himself  as 
merely  an  individual,  his  generic  Self-hood,  not  having  been 
upheaved  into  his  consciousness.  His  temptation  must  then 
be  to  assert  his  individual  interests  and  ambition.  Alike, 
from  Adam  and  from  the  Son  of  Man  in  their  respective 
hours  of  Trial,  all  Divine  Transcendental  influence  is  with- 


106       THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

drawn  and  yet  abundant  and  ready  to  be  freely  extended 
either  in  response  to  the  weakest  cry  of  Faith  for  help.  Again, 
Adam  had  no  Divine  being  implanted  and  functioning  implic- 
itly in  him  to  afford  him  unsought  support  from  below.  On 
the  other  hand,  the  Son  of  Man  embodies  the  Son  of  God, 
whose  uprising  energizing  toward  consciousness  upholds  him 
(tlie  Son  of  Man)  so  that  he  can  not  say  "Yes"  to  the 
Tempter ;  and  at  the  same  time  enables  him  in  faith  to  claim 
the  promises  of  God.  The  Son  of  Man,  incarnating  the  Son  of 
God,  is,  therefore,  impeccable  and  effects  a  triumphant  pas- 
sage through  this  Ethical  Procession ;  Adam  was  not  infallible 
and  wilfully  defaulted.  In  yet  another  respect  the  two 
temptations  differ.  Adam  was  divinely  commanded  not  to 
do  an  evil  act ;  the  Son  of  Man  is  solicited  to  do  an  evil  act 
(acts)  not  explicitly  forbidden  but  inconsistent  with  the 
office  he  has  assumed.  In  this  temptation  three  appeals  are 
made  to  the  Son  of  Man ;  the  first  appeal  is  made  to  his  physi- 
cal appetite ;  the  second  to  his  susceptibility  of  pride,  and  the 
third  to  his  personal  ambition.  In  the  formal  reflection 
below  the  three  are  combined  in  one  and  the  emphasis  is  logi- 
cally laid  on  the  relation  of  the  Son  of  Man  to  the  Tempter. 

THE  FORMAL  PROCESSION. 

(1)  The  Thesis:  The  Son  of  Man  deliberates,  "Shall  I 
not  say  No"  (to  the  Tempter). 

(2)  The  Analysis — Ante-focal  Process:  "If  I  do  not  say 
No"  (to  him),  "I  must  say  Nothing,  or  I  must  say  Yes." 
Tliis  brings  the  Son  of  Man  (in  thought)  down  to  the  Ethi- 
cal Focal  Point. 

The  Analysis — Post-focal  Process :  "But  I  cannot  say 
Nothing  (to  him),  therefore  I  must  (deliberatively)  say 
"Yes." 

(3)  The  Synthesis — Ante-focal  Process:  "But  I  cannot 
say  Yes"  (to  him),  therefore  I  shall  have  to  say  Nothing  or 
No"  (to  him).  This  brings  the  Son  of  Man  (in  his  delibera- 
tion) up  to  the  second  Ethical  Focal  Point. 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.       107 

Synthesis — Post-focal  Process:  "But  I  cannot  say  Noth- 
ing (to  Him),  therefore  I  shall  and  do  say  No"  (to  him). 
The  victory  is  won.  In  his  passage  through  this  Procession, 
the  Son  of  Man  by  Negating  the  claims  and  ambitions  of  his 
individual  Manhood,  achieves  his  Primal  Generic  Conscious- 
ness; and  the  Son  of  God  (incarnate)  his  Primal  or  Conscious 
Estate. 

In  the  next,  or  ministerial  Procession,  the  Son  of  Man  and 
the  Son  of  God  (incarnate)  co-function  in  perfect  conspir- 
acy. And,  of  the  two  Processions,  it  is  the  Divine  that  is 
superior  to  and  determinative  of  the  Human.  The  Thean- 
thropos  in  this  Procession  completes  the  inversion  of  himself. 
The  Son  of  Man  is  subjected  under  the  (incarnate)  Son  of 
God;  and  the  subjection  of  the  Son  of  Man  is  a  free  self- 
subjection,  and  yet  free  only  as  the  (incarnate)  Son  of  God 
works  in  the  Son  of  Man  to  will  and  to  do  of  his  good  pleas- 
ure. The  two  persons  of  the  Theanthropos  are  one  in  every 
thought,  affection  and  deed,  and  this  fellowship  is  exalted  as 
the  two  processions  proceed;  and  in  their  completion  each 
person  achieves  self-consciousness.  The  incarnate  Son  of 
God  relates  himself  to  God  the  Father,  to  lost  Man  through 
his  body,  the  Son  of  Man,  and  to  himself  as  sexually  Self- 
Differentiated.  The  Son  of  Man  relates  himself  (the  Genus 
Homo)  to  God  the  Father  through  the  incarnate  Son  of  God, 
immediately  to  the  incarnate  Son  of  God  as  his  rightful  Lord, 
and  to  the  fallen  Human  Race. 

The  Parental  Desire  and  Purpose  of  the  Son  of  God, 
incarnate  in  the  Son  of  Man,  is  to  reproduce  himself  com- 
pletely in  the  Son  of  Man,  in  order  that  the  Son  of  Man  may 
reproduce  himself  (Divine  Psychically  transformed)  in  a 
redeemed  offspring.  And  this  Self-reproduction  here  as  else- 
where can  be  achieved  only  through  the  two  Processions — 
the  Projectival  followed  by  the  Recuperatival. 

Likewise,  it  is  the  loving  desire  and  loyal  purpose  of  the 
Son  of  Man  to  reproduce  himself  through  the  mediation  of  his 
Human  Psychically  transformed   Soma  in  a   redeemed   off- 


108      THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

spring.  And  this  again  can  be  accomplished  only  through 
the  two  Processions — the  Projectival  and  the  Recuperatival. 
That  is,  he  must  project  his  Soma  from  him  into  death  and 
then  recover  it  (by  transforming  it)  back  unto  himself. 

The  Ethical  Psychosis  of  Adam  completed  is  transformed 
into  the  Reproductival  Psychosis.  The  impending  Crucial 
Procession  is  the  Son  of  Man's  Ethical  Procession  trans- 
formed and  will  be  found  to  be  an  essentially  Ethico-Repro- 
ductival  Procession.  Here  the  son  of  Man  to  be  projected 
forth  is  an  ethically  free  co-agent  in  his  own  projection 
forth,  which  declares  this  to  be  the  last  and  highest  Ethico- 
Reproductival  Procession. 

Now  God  lays  upon  the  Theanthropos  the  Sin  of  the 
World ;  the  Theanthropos — the  Son  of  God,  the  Son  of  Man 
— assumes  the  world's  sin. 

THE  CRUCIAL  ETHICO-REPRODUCTIVAL  PROCES- 
SION. 

THE  PROJECTIONAL  PROCESSION. 

THE  FORMAL  PROCESS. 

( 1 )  The  Thesis :  God  the  Father  and  the  Theanthropos  in 
Communion  with  each  other  is  Posited. 

(2)  The  Analysis — The  Posited  Estate  is  Negated:  God 
devolves  upon  the  Theanthropos  the  obligation  of  Death  as 
the  penalty  of  the  world's  sin.  The  Theanthropos  assumes 
the  penalty.  The  Father's  fellowship  is  withdrawn  and  the 
Theanthropos  freely  suffers  death.  The  Son  of  God,  incar- 
nate, accepts  the  death  of  alienation  from  the  Father,  and 
from  the  Son  of  Man  by  projecting  him  forth  from  himself. 
The  Son  of  Man,  inwrought  of  the  incarnate  Son  of  God, 
freely  accepts  the  death  of  alienation  from  the  latter  and 
through  him  from  God  and  separation  from  his  Soma  by 
projecting  it  from  himself  into  death. 

(3)  The  Synthesis:  This  is  a  Recuperatival  Procession. 
The  several  Projections  are  to  be  recovered;  the  incarnate 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.       109 

Son  of  God  is  to  be  raised  into  a  higher  community  of  being 
with  God,  the  Father,  from  whom  he  was  projected  into  ahena- 
tion;  so  the  Son  of  Man  is  to  be  raised  into  a  higher  com- 
munity of  being  with  the  incarnate  Son  of  God  from  whom 
he  was  projected  into  alienation;  so  also  the  soma  is  to  be 
raised  into  a  higher  community  of  being  with  the  Psychical 
Son  of  Man  from  whom  it  was  projected  into  death.  As  the 
freely  accepted  death  of  the  Theanthropos  was  a  Progen- 
eratival  Procession,  so  the  Resurrection  of  the  Theanthropos 
is  a  Regeneratival  Procession. 

Because  then  of  the  utter  obedience  of  the  Theanthropos, 
God,  through  the  mediation  of  His  eternally  generated  Son, 
communicates  in  the  subjective  Progression  Pneumatical 
Being  to  the  recently  incarnate  Son  of  God ;  in  the  first 
objective  Progression,  Divine  Psychical  being  to  the  Son  of 
Man;  in  the  second  objective  Progression,  Human  Psychical 
being  to  the  dead  Soma;  and  in  the  third  objective  Progres- 
sion, the  human  somatic  anima  to  the  Earth.  And  the  "Raise" 
in  the  several  cases  forms  a  true  proportion.  The  one  time 
incarnated  Son  pneumatically  transformed  is  raised  up  into 
heaven  whence  he  had  set  out  on  his  wonderful  mission  of 
Love;  the  Son  of  Man  Divine  Psychically  transformed  and 
in  a  human  Psychically  transformed  body  and  himself  indwelt 
of  the  Pneumatical  Spirit  of  his  ascended  Lord,  loyally 
begins  his  post-Resurrection  Ministry,  with  absolute  domin- 
ion over  the  Earth  his  outer  body.  This  statement  is  predi- 
cated on  the  established  fact  that  co-products  are  in  the 
Pontal  Procession  united  without  fusion  as  body  with  soul. 
The  four  co-products  can  be  more  conveniently  united  per- 
haps by  bringing  the  lowest  product  to  the  next  higher  and 
the  two  combined  to  the  yet  higher,  and  so  on.  Bring  the 
Human  Anima  communicated  to  the  Earth  into  union  with 
the  next  higher  product,  the  Human  Psyche;  and  these  two 
(united)  into  union  with  the  next  higher  product,  the  Divine 
Psychical  being;  and  these  three  (united)  into  union  with  the 
next  higher  product,  Pneumatical  Being,  and  we  can  see  that 


110      THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

God  through  the  Resurrection  of  the  Theanthropos  has 
re-established  communication  with  the  very  outmost  works  of 
His  hand. 

The  risen  Son  of  Man  reveals  himself  to  his  Disciples  as 
the  fulfilment  of  Prophecy,  and  is  believed  on.      This  com- 
pletes his  Post-Resurrection  Ministry,  and  the  ascended  Son 
of  God  mediates  the  communication  of  Pneumatical  Being  to 
the  risen  Son  of  Man,  Divine  Psychical  being  to  the  believing 
Disciples,  and  human  Psychical  being  to  the  Earth.      The 
Pontal   Procession   unites    the    co-products ;    the    Church    is 
united  on  the  one  side  with  her  Ascended  Lord  as  his  body 
and  on  the  other  side  (as  soul)  with  the  Earth  which  she  is  to 
inherit.      Or  to  put  it  in  another  form,  at  the  moment  of  the 
completion  of  the  Son  of  Man's  Earthly  Ministry,  the  four 
co-products — the  ascended  Son  of  God,  the  Divine  Psychi- 
cally transformed  Son  of  Man,  his  human  Psychically  trans- 
formed soma,  the  human  animistically  regenerated  Earth — 
constitute  a  descending  series  of  relay  stations,  which  enables 
God  legitimately  to  send  His  appropriate  Message  of  Love 
to  each  and  every  creatural  Realm,  the  works  of  His  hand. 
Through  His  ascended  Son  (who  in  its  transmission  is  raised 
into  the  Third  Estate  of  Pneumatical  Being)  to  the  Divine 
Psychically  transformed  Son  of  Man  He  sends  Pneumatical 
Being;  the  Son  of  Man  relays  Divine  Psychical  being  to  his 
human  Psychically  transformed  Soma ;  and  his  Soma  in  turn 
relays  Human  Psychical  being  to  the  Earth.      Or,  to  put  it  in 
our  more  familiar  form,  the  Ascended  Son  of  God  mediates  in 
the  subjective  Progression  Pneumatical  Being  to  the  Divine 
Psychically  transformed  Son  of  Man;  in  the  first  objective 
Progression  Divine  Psychical  being  to   his   human   Psychi- 
cally transformed  soma;  and  in  the  second  objective  Pro- 
gression Human  Psychical  being  to  the  human  animistically 
regenerated  Earth.      The  Pontal  Procession  completes  itself 
in  uniting  without  fusion  the  several  co-products ;  and  a  Line 
of  more  intimate  communication  is  established  between  God 
and  the  several  Realms,  the  creatures  of  His  hands.     But, 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.       Ill 

as  thus  presented,  there  is  no  obvious  provision  made  for  the 
regeneration  of  His  faithful  Disciples.  The  Son  of  Man  is 
generic  embracing  all  humanity  and  when  his  human  Psychi- 
cal being  (now  his  transformed  soma)  is  Divine  Psychically 
transformed,  the  Disciples,  who  by  faith  lay  claim  to  their 
places  in  him  have,  as  comprehended  within  his  transfigured 
humanity.  Divine  Psychical  Being  communicated  to  them; 
that  is,  he  mediately  communicates  this  regenerating  grace  to 
them  as  he  by  the  appropriation  of  the  Pneumatical  Being 
imparted  to  him  ascends  up  into  Heaven.  The  Pontal  Pro- 
cession completes  itself  in  uniting  or  conjugating  the  Co- 
products.  And  the  Disciples  in  their  regenerate  or  Divine 
Psychical  being  become  the  Body  and  Bride  of  their  Pneu- 
matically transformed  and  ascended  Lord.  The  Christian 
Church  thus  instituted  is  an  organism  of  free  and  equal  indi- 
vidual or  membral  organs,  having  their  one  principle  of  sol- 
idarity in  their  Common  Lord.  There  is  one  exceedingly 
important  implication  that  for  some  readers  may  require  an 
explicit  statement  and  the  proof  to  sustain  it.  The  Chris- 
tian gains  by  regeneration  more  than  he  lost  in  the  fall  of 
Adam.  He  gains  a  higher  and  broader  Divine  Psychical 
being,  and,  therefore,  a  closer  community  of  being  with  God 
the  Father,  than  could  have  been  possible  through  an  obe- 
dient Adam.  Triune  Man  and  not  Adam  was  the  Son  of 
Man  to  be  raised  by  regeneration  into  the  Divine  Sonship ; 
and  the  progenerated  individual  could  have  been  no  more 
than  a  unital  organ  of  the  human  Son  (one  of  the  persons  of 
the  human  trinity).  The  Son  of  Man,  incarnating  the  Son 
of  God,  is  in  himself  the  trinal  man;  and,  therefore,  all  that 
find  their  place  in  him  by  regeneration  are  given  the  power  to 
become  the  Children  of  God,  heirs  of  God  and  joint  heirs 
with  the  glorified  Son  of  Man.  The  Son  of  Man  as  generic, 
or  all-embracing  humanity,  rose  from  the  dead  and  therein 
potentially  raised  the  entire  fallen  race  out  of  spiritual 
death.  The  Son  of  Man  as  generic  human  soma  was  raised 
from  the  dead  and  therein  potentially  raised  not  the  individ- 

9-PC 


112      THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

ual  bodies  of  the  fallen  human  race  only,  but  also  the  body  of 
the  collective  human  Race — the  Earth.  In  the  ascension  of 
the  Son  of  Man  up  into  Heaven  every  lost  creature  poten- 
tially ascended.  And  that  is  the  all-sufficient  theory  of  the 
atonement. 

Upon  the  Christian  Church  now  integrated  into  an  organ- 
ism, constituent  of  morally  free  organs,  and  as  such  con- 
jugated (as  brides)  with  her  ascended  Lord  by  the  indwell- 
ing Holy  Spirit — is  devolved  the  high  commission  of  com- 
municating God's  glorious  Gosjiel  Message  of  Love  to  the 
Lost  Human  Race  and  of  witnessing  to  its  supreme  efficacy 
in  their  own  personal  lives,  and  finally  of  subduing  the  Earth 
(the  body  of  the  human  race)  under  the  dominion  of  regen- 
erate Man,  which  involves  the  forward  carriage  of  Nature 
to  the  highest  possible  perfection  attainable  in  the  present 
Dispensation.  But  the  Church  is  not  to  arrogate  to  herself 
independent  Primacy.  She  is  but  the  bond-slave  of  her  Lord, 
who  works  in  her  to  will  and  to  do  of  his  good  pleasure. 
And  so  far  only  as  the  Church  in  her  organismic  entirety  and 
in  her  individual  organic  units  is  utterly  self -subjected  to  the 
will  of  her  Lord  can  she  finally  bring  to  perfection  the  King- 
dom of  God  on  Earth.  It  is  God  in  the  person  of  the  Holy 
Spirit  indwelling  the  Church  that  does  the  work  and  not  the 
Church  or  Christian  Worker.  And  yet  God  could  not  accom- 
plish the  great  commission  without  the  free  co-operation  of 
the  Church.  It  is  the  mother  that  sustains  the  foetal  life, 
and  under  God  all  the  glory  is  hers ;  and  yet  she  can  sustain 
it  only  as  the  foetus  appropriates  and  assimilates  the  gra- 
ciously afforded  nourishment.  To  God  rightfully  belongs 
all  the  glory,  and  yet  He  graciously  rewards  the  obedient 
Church  or  Christian  with  life  and  that  ever  more  abundant. 
In  devotedly  seeking  the  furtherance  of  the  Kingdom  of  God 
the  Church  or  Christian  legitimately  grows  in  grace.  This 
growth  in  Grace  is  an  age-long  Procession  and  is  known  as 
Sanctification;  and  its  final  Product  is  the  complete  reno- 
vation, l^he  perfect  restoration  of  the  fallen  yet  regenerate 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY.      113 

human  Psyche  to  its  pristine  purity  and  the  finished  self- 
evolution  of  the  Christian's  dual  being  (human  and  Divine) 
into  their  highest  power.  Sanctification  is  the  legitimate 
product  of  inexorable  Law;  and  as  such  it  will  hereafter  be 
adequately  reflected.  For  the  present  let  it  suffice  to  adduce 
a  very  important  contributory  Factor  in  the  divinely  benig- 
nant recovery  of  fallen  man  from  sin  unto  holiness ;  namely, 
the  Foetal  regeneration  of  the  offspring  of  real  Christians. 
H^ypothetically  regenerate  Adam's  offspring  were  not  regen- 
erated in  the  womb;  nor  could  that  have  been  legitimately 
achieved  even  by  God.  Divine  Psychical  being  had  never 
been  reduced  to  an  embryo;  and  the  recuperatival  reach  was 
just  sufficiently  long,  so  to  say,  to  impart  conscious  Divine 
Psychical  being  to  the  soul  of  obedient  Adam,  and  to  his 
obedient  adolescent  offspring.  But,  in  the  incarnation  of 
the  Son  of  God,  the  Divine  Psyche,  in  the  totality  of  his 
being,  was  reduced  to  an  embryo  and  embodied  in  the  foetal 
Son  of  Man.  So  that  it  cannot  be  thought  unlawful  or 
miraculous  for  God  to  reduce  the  appropriate  Divine  Psy- 
chical being  and  implant  it  in  the  foetus  of  the  offspring  of 
real  Christians.  To  do  so  could  not  contravene  the  holiness 
or  the  justice  of  God;  for  is  He  not  bound  by  holy  covenant 
to  accept  any  deed  done  unto  Him ;  and  is  not  the  Christian's 
offspring  begotten  in  faith  unto  God.?  More  assuredly  if 
that  were  possible  it  could  not  transgress  the  Law  of  Love 
of  Him  who  promises  that  He  will  withhold  no  good  thing 
from  them  that  serve  Him.  And,  above  all,  the  Bible  teaches, 
as  the  writer  construes  it,  that  the  children  of  Christians  are 
born  in  the  Church  and  are  holy  or  saints.  In  the  Son  of 
God's  foetal  incarnation  the  children  of  Christians  are 
assured  of  foetal  regeneration.  As  Christians  participate, 
at  appropriate  stages,  in  the  Death,  in  the  Resurrection,  in 
the  Ascension  and  in  the  Glorification  of  Jesus  Christ,  so 
their  children  participate  in  the  foetal  incarnation  of  the 
Son  of  God. 


114      THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

THE  PALINGENESIS. 

The  Great  Sanctificational  Procession  completes  itself  and 
God,  through  the  mediation  of  the  exalted  Son  of  Man,  com- 
municates Pneumatical  Being  to  the  Church  and  Divine  Psy- 
chical being  to  the  Earth;  and  the  Church  ascends  up  into 
heaven,  or  the  heavenly  kingdom  of  God  is  let  down  upon  the' 
Earth.  And  the  commission,  now  devolved  upon  the  God- 
indwelt  Church,  is  to  energize  Nature's  Divine  Psyche  in  the 
reproduction  of  his  outer  or  cosmic  body  in  a  new  cosmos 
and  in  the  reproduction  of  his  inner  or  human  Psychical 
body  in  a  new  Adam  (Man). 

The  foregoing  reflections  will  be  re-presented  in  brief  along 
with  the  citation  of  the  related  Bible  truths,  to  the  end  that 
the  perfect  harmony  of  the  Natural  Revelation  with  the 
supernatural  shall  be  adequately  exhibited. 


PART  V. 

THE  INCARNATION  OF  THE  SON  OF  GOD 
IN  JESUS  THE  SON  OF  MAN. 

"God  so  loved  the  World  (Kosmos)  that  He  gave  His 
only  begotten  Son,  that  whosoever  believeth  in  Him  shall 
not  perish,  but  have  everlasting  life." 

'"T'hen  said  I,  Lo,  I  come  to  do  Thy  will,  O  my  God.  Yea, 
Thy  law  is  within  my  heart." 

"And,  behold,  thou  shalt  conceive  in  thy  womb,  and  bring 
forth  a  son,  and  thou  shalt  call  his  name  Jesus." 

"The  Holy  Spirit  shall  come  upon  thee  and  the  power  of 
the  Highest  shall  overshadow  thee;  therefore  also  that  holy 
thing  which  shall  be  born  of  thee  shall  be  called  the  Son  of 
God." 

The  three  Progressions  of  the  overshadowing  Pneumati- 
cosic  Procession  communicated  the  three  co-products — the 
Divine  Psyche,  the  generic  human  Psyche,  the  generic  human 
anima  (each  reduced  to  its  embryo) — to  the  purified  and 
generically  transformed  ovum  in  the  womb  of  the  elect  mother. 
And  the  Son  of  God  is  incarnated  in  the  Son  of  Man.  The 
incarnation  of  the  Son  of  God  in  the  Son  of  Man  secures  the 
impeccability  of  the  latter ;  and  the  impeccability  of  the  Son 
secures  the  salvation  and  indefectibility  of  the  believing  or 
Elect,  and  the  restoration  and  final  perfection  of  Nature. 
In  the  event  that  none  of  the  fallen  race  would  believe  on  and 
accept  the  risen  Son  of  Man  as  I^ord  and  Saviour,  then 
humanity  should  be  saved  in  Jesus,  the  Genus  Homo ;  but  the 
entire  fallen  human  race  would  be  lost  and  the  recovery  and 
perfection  of  Nature  be  rendered  legitimately  impossible. 
Therefore  God  "Sware  and  will  not  repent."  "Thou  art  a 
priest  forever  after  the  order  of  Melchisedec."  "This  man, 
because  he  continueth  forever,  has  an  unchangeable  Priest- 
hood;" and  with  him  God  covenants  that  he  shall  be  the 
"first  born  of  many  brethren."     "He  shall  see  of  the  travail 


116      THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

of  his  soul  and  shall  be  satisfied;  by  his  knowledge  shall  my 
righteous  servant  justify  many;  for  he  shall  bear  their 
iniquities." 

THE  ADVENT. 

"And  she  (Mary)  brought  forth  her  first-born  son,  and 
wrapped  him  in  swaddling  clothes  and  laid  him  in  a  manger; 
because  there  was  no  room  for  them  in  the  inn."  "And  the 
angel  said  unto  them  [the  shepherds]  :  Fear  not,  for,  behold, 
I  bring  you  good  tidings  of  great  joy,  which  shall  be  to  all 
people.  For  unto  you  is  born  this  day  in  the  city  of  David 
a  Savior,  which  is  Christ  the  Lord," 

The  Gestational  Procession  normally  completes  itself  in 
the  act  of  Parturition;  the  holy  child  is  born. 

THE  DEVELOPMENT  OF  THE  CHILD  INTO  MAN- 
HOOD. 

"And  the  Child  grew  and  waxed  strong  in  spirit,  filled 
with  wisdom ;  and  the  grace  of  God  was  upon  Him."  "Wist 
ye  not  that  I  must  be  about  my  Father's  business.'*" 

As  an  individual  child  Jesus  passes  through  the  First  or 
Filially  Self-Conscious  Psychosic  Procession,  the  second  or 
moral  Psychosic  Procession  and  the  Third  or  Ethical  Pi'o- 
cession,  and  in  the  last  he  consecrates  himself  to  the  service  of 
God. 

THE  VOCATIONAL  PROCESSION. 

"Now  when  all  the  people  were  baptized,  it  came  to  pass 
that  Jesus,  also  being  baptized,  and  praying,  the  Heaven 
was  opened  and  the  Holy  Spirit  descended  in  a  bodily  shape 
like  a  dove  upon  him,  and  a  voice  came  from  (out  of)  heaven 
which  said.  Thou  art  my  beloved  Son ;  in  thee  I  am  well 
pleased."  Jesus  as  an  individual  Man  here  consecrates  Him- 
self to  His  Messianic  Ministry. 


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THE  TEMPTATION  OF  THE  SON  OF  MAN. 

"Then  was  Jesus  led  by  the  Spirit  into  the  wilderness  to  be 
tempted  of  the  Devil."  This,  the  Ethical  Psychosis  into 
which  Jesus,  the  Son  of  Man,  is  led.  Because  of  the  upris- 
ing influence  of  the  as  yet  sub-conscious  Son  of  God  whom 
he  incarnates,  Jesus  achieves  a  triumphant  passage  through 
the  temptation.  He  is  susceptible  of  temptation  and  yet 
impeccable,  because  sustained  from  beneath  by  the  germinant 
Divine  Psyche.  His  mission  is  not  to  progenerate  offspring 
— for  he  is  the  generic  man — actually  not  potentially,  the 
genus  homo;  but  in  co-operation  with  the  incarnate  Son  of 
God  to  mediate  the  Divine  recovery  of  fallen  man.  The 
Temptation  of  Jesus  was,  therefore,  but  the  trial  or  testing 
of  his  loyalty  to  His  Divinely  devolved  mission,  which  could 
initially  be  evinced  only  in  his  self-renunciation  (self-nega- 
tion) ;  and  in  this  self-negation  Jesus,  the  individual  man, 
achieves  the  consciousness  of  himself  as  the  generic  man  (the 
genus  homo)  ;  and  the  incarnate  Son  of  God  achieves  syn- 
chronously the  conscious  estate  of  Divine  Psychical  being. 

The  victory  won,  he  is  for  a  season  left  of  Satan.  And 
Jesus  went  about  doing  good — he  heals  the  sick,  restores 
sight  to  the  blind,  hearing  to  the  deaf;  casts  out  demons; 
brings  the  dead  to  life  again;  preaches  the  gospel  to  the 
poor ;  and  does  all  things  in  the  name  of  the  Father,  to  whom 
his  impeccably  beautiful  life  also  bears  infallible  witness. 
In  this  Procession  Jesus  is  inspired  of  the  incarnate  Son  of 
God,  who  therein  achieved  self-consciousness  and  is  thereby 
enthroned  upon  the  Son  of  Man  (his  body). 

THE  CRUCIFIXION  AND  DEATH  OF  OUR  LORD. 

"Him  being  delivered  by  the  determinate  counsel  and  fore- 
knowledge of  God,  ye  have  taken,  and  by  wicked  hands  have 
crucified  and  slain." 


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"The  cup  which  my  Father  hath  given  me,  shall  I  not 
drink  it?" 

"No  man  taketh  my  life  from  me;  I  have  power  both  to 
lay  it  down  and  to  take  it  up  again." 

There  were  three  Agents  then  that  took  part  in  the 
bringing  about  of  the  death  of  our  Lord:  (1)  God,  who 
required  his  life  of  him,  who  gave  him  the  "cup"  to  drink; 
(2)  the  Theanthropos  himself,  who  obediently  drank  of  the 
divinely  proffered  "cup;"  (3)  the  Jewish  Church  under 
Satanic  obsession  and  assisted  by  the  Roman  Government, 
who  took  and  crucified  and  slew  him. 

God's  participation  was  both  moral  and  benevolent. 
Moved  by  love  for  the  world,  God  delivered  up  his  own  Son 
into  the  hands  of  his  enemies — "to  declare  His  righteousness, 
that  He  might  be  just  and  yet  the  justifier  of  him  that 
believeth  on  Jesus."  Was  God  in  this  unjust  to  His  Son, 
who  "knew  no  sin?"  No,  for  Jesus  himself,  in  freest  obe- 
dience, gave  up  his  life  to  save  the  world,  which  he  had 
solemnly  covenanted  with  the  Father  to  do. 

Jesus'  participation  in  His  own  death.  Can  it  be 
rationall}^  defended  as  moral?  Yes,  for  Jesus'  participation 
in  his  own  death  was  not  in  any  sense  suicidal.  It  was  an 
act  of  obedience  unto  death  on  the  Cross ;  and  all  true  obe- 
dience has  for  its  major-limit  actual  death;  and  even  death 
unto  self  is  the  gateway  unto  a  larger  life.  Jesus,  "for 
the  joy  that  was  set  before  him,  endured  the  cross,  despising 
the  shame,  and  sat  down  at  the  right  hand  of  the  throne  of 
God."  The  divinely  sanctioned  end  justifies,  and  is  justified 
by,  the  divinely  sanctioned  means.  And  again,  it  may  be 
said  that  the  salvation  of  man  from  and  out  of  sin  unto  holi- 
ness is  the  greatest  work  and  the  highest  glory  of  God.  And 
the  chief  end  of  the  Son  of  God  as  of  the  Son  of  Man  is  to 
glorify  God.  Jesus,  therefore,  stands  morally  justified  in 
the  laying  down  of  his  life  at  the  behest  of  the  Father  in  the 
establishment  of  the  Kingdom  of  God  on  Earth.  God 
laid   upon    Jesus    Christ    the    sin    of    the   world,   which    he, 


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in  solemn  covenant  with  the  Father,  freely  assumed. 
The  penalty  of  sin  was  twofold — the  death  of  the  soul 
and  of  the  body  of  Adam.  The  death  of  the  soul  was  a 
free  and  then  an  enforced  alienation  from  God;  and  its  con- 
sequence, in  the  absence  of  divine  intervention,  an  endless 
moral  deterioration;  the  death  of  the  body,  an  enforced 
alienation  from  the  soul  and  its  consequent  physical  corrup- 
tion and  final  disintegration.  Now,  Jesus  assumed  the  penal- 
ties but  not  the  actual  subjective  guilt  of  sin.  God  imputes 
the  sin  of  the  world  to  his  incarnate  Son ;  the  Son  conse- 
quently puts  himself  in  the  place  or  room  of  fallen  man  but 
without  a  trace  of  subjective  guilt.  So  in  the  hour  of  Jesus' 
crucial  suffering  the  Father  withdraws  from  him  His  gra- 
cious sustaining  fellowship,  which  was  signalized  by  the  out- 
cry wrung  from  our  Lord:  "My  God,  My  God  [not  My 
Father,  My  Father],  why  hast  thou  forsaken  Me?"  But 
notwithstanding  the  withdrawal  of  the  Father's  fellowship, 
his  faith  sustained  him ;  for  "when  he  had  cried  with  a  loud 
voice,"  he  said,  "Father,  into  Thy  hands  I  commend  my 
spirit;"  and  "having  thus  said  he  gave  up  the  ghost  (spirit)." 
In  giving  up  "the  Ghost,"  the  Theanthropos  Negated  his 
Will  to  live.  As  the  Son  of  God  he  projected  His  body,  the 
Son  of  Man  from  himself;  as  the  Son  of  Man,  energized  by 
the  Son  of  God,  whom  he  incarnated,  he  freely  projected  his 
body  from  himself.  The  Theanthropos  thus  paid  the  pen- 
alty of  the  self-assumed  sin  of  the  world.  The  Son  of  God 
suffered  alienation  from  the  Father  and  separation  from  his 
body,  the  Son  of  Man;  and  the  Son  of  Man  alienation  from 
the  Son  of  God  and  separation  from  his  body.  The  dead 
but  non-corruptible  body  suffered  the  physical  penalty  but 
not  the  consequence  of  sin — physical  corruption.  Jesus 
Christ  did  not  take  on  himself  the  corruptible  body  of  fallen 
man;  but  a  body  prepared  by  God  for  him  in  a  Procession 
that  transcended  that  in  which  the  body  of  Adam  was  gen- 
erated— therefore  more  perfect  than  the  latter  prior  to  his 
fall.     Again,  the  body  of  our  Lord  was  generic.     For  the 


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Son  of  Man  by  generation  was  in  the  Pontal  Procession  to 
embody  or  incarnate  the  Son  of  God,  the  Divine  Psyche. 
Therefore,  the  human  Psyche  of  the  Son  of  Man  was  the 
generic  human  Psyche  and  his  body  answered  generically  to  it. 
The  Son  of  Man  was  in  himself  all  men. 

The  Death  of  our  Lord  the  Theanthropos  was  an 
Ethico-Projectional  Procession.  It  was  an  Ethical  Trial  of 
the  incarnate  Son  of  God  and  of  the  Son  of  Man  who  incar- 
nated him.  The  Son  of  God  in  free  obedience  suffers  the 
penalty  of  sin;  in  the  subjective  Procession  he  wills  the  will 
of  the  Father  in  utter  self-negation  and  projects  the  Son  of 
Man  from  him;  and  in  the  objective  Progression  he  energizes 
the  Son  of  Man's  self-negation — he  works  in  the  Son  of  Man 
to  will  and  to  do  of  his  good  purpose.  And  the  Son  of  Man 
thus  energized  from  above  freely  wills  in  the  subjective  Pro- 
gression the  will  of  the  Son  of  God  and  projects  his  soma  from 
him;  and  in  the  objective  progression  he  withdraws  animistic 
life  from  his  body,  which,  bereft  of  its  tenant,  yields  up  its 
life  to  the  executioner. 

THE  RESURRECTION  OF  OUR  LORD. 

"Christ  was  raised  from  the  Dead  by  the  Glory  of  the 
Father."  "Whom  God  hath  raised  from  the  dead."  He 
was  raised  by  the  Holy  Spirit.  "Now  if  Christ  be  preached 
that  he  rose  from  the  dead,"  etc. 

The  Ethical  Psychosis  of  the  Theanthropos  was  com- 
pletely achieved  in  the  freely  obedient  death  of  our  Lord. 
Now  this  Ethical  Procession  was  (as  has  been  shown)  essen- 
tially the  First  or  Projectional  Procession  of  a  higher  Repro- 
ductival  Psychosis.  The  Regeneratival  Procession  is,  there- 
fore, logically  or  lawfully  consequent  thereon.  And  the 
Scriptures  so  represent  it.  "And  the  third  day  he  arose 
from  the  dead."  The  three  persons  of  the  Godliead  and  the 
Theanthropos  conspire.  In  God's  recovery  to  Himself  of  the 
forsaken  yet  obedient  Theanthropos,  the  Theanthropos  must, 


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by  law,  freely  and  energetically  respond  to  the  parental 
energizings.  So  He  could  say,  "No  man  taketh  my  life  from 
me;  I  have  the  power  to  lay  it  down  and  to  take  up  again." 
God,  through  the  mediation  of  his  eternally  begotten  Son, 
communicates,  in  the  subjective  Progression,  Pneumatical 
Being  to  the  forsaken  Son  of  God;  in  the  First  Objective 
Progression,  Divine  Psychical  being  to  the  Son  of  Man;  and 
in  the  second  objective  Progression,  human  Psychical  being 
to  the  Soma.     This  the  Resurrection. 

The  Pontal  Procession  unites  the  Divine  Psychically 
transformed  Son  of  Man  with  the  Pneumatically  regenerated 
Son  of  God,  as  body  with  soul.  The  spirit  of  the  Son  of  God 
dwells  in  the  Son  of  Man,  or  the  Son  of  Man  dwells  foetus- 
like in  the  Pneumatical  womb  of  the  Son  of  God.  The  Son 
of  God  regenerate  ascends  up  on  high,  the  Son  of  Man  begins 
his  Post-resurrection  ministry  on  earth.  Now,  because  the 
Son  of  Man  energized  responsively  in  his  resurrection,  the 
Apostle  could  declare,  "For  since  by  man  came  death,  by  man 
came  also  the  resurrection  of  the  dead.  For  as  in  Adam  all 
die,  even  so  in  Christ  shall  all  be  made  alive  again.  But 
every  man  in  his  own  order :  Christ  the  first  fruits ;  after- 
wards they  that  are  Christ's  at  his  coming." 

Note. — The  Resurrection  of  the  human  soul  of  Christ  does 
not,  as  a  doctrine,  grievously  offend  the  unbeliever;  but  the 
doctrine  of  the  resurrection  of  his  body  is  today,  as  from  the 
beginning,  to  the  Jews  a  stumbling  block  and  to  the  Greeks 
an  offense.  And  yet  the  resurrection  of  our  Lord's  body 
was  not  (in  the  ordinary  sense  of  the  word)  a  miracle  at  all. 
The  resurrection  of  his  body  was  not  an  unlawful  or  illegiti- 
mate procedure,  but,  on  the  contrary,  naught  but  the  valida- 
tion of  eternal  Law.  For  the  human  soul  and  body  of  the 
Son  of  Man  were  the  co-products  of  two  co-ordinate  Progres- 
sions of  the  Pneumaticosic  Procession.  The  resurrection  of 
the  soul,  therefore,  involved  the  resurrection  of  the  body,  its 
lowered  and  externalized  self. 

The  Post-Resurrection  Self-revelation  of  Jesus  to  his 
disciples.     In  his  ante-resurrection  ministry  Jesus  revealed 


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himself  to  fallen  man  as  the  Son  of  Man.  In  His  post- 
resurrection  ministry  he  reveals  himself  as  the  Son  of  God. 
"And  declared  the  Son  of  God  with  power,  according  to  the 
Spirit  of  holiness,  by  the  resurrection  from  the  dead."  No 
resurrection,  no  Son  of  God,  mighty  to  save.  Intellectual 
belief  on  the  part  of  the  disciples  was  necessitated ;  and  their 
eyes  were  opened  to  see  in  the  risen  Jesus  the  all  victorious 
Son  of  God ;  and  they  believed  on  him. 

The  Ascension  of  our  Lord.  The  Disciples  believed 
on  the  risen  Son  of  Man  and  freely  consecrated  themselves 
to  his  service.  This  brought  the  earthly  ministry  of  the 
Son  of  Man  to  its  completion ;  and  the  Ascended  Son  of  God, 
functioning  in  the  Rcgeneratival  Procession,  communicates 
in  the  objective  Progression  Divine  Psychical  being  to  the 
Disciples,  and  in  the  subjective  Progression  Pneumatical 
Being  to  the  loyal  Son  of  Man — thus  raising  him  up  on  high, 
where  he  sitteth  at  the  right  hand  of  the  throne  of  God — a 
Priest-King  forever,  with  all  power  in  heaven  and  on  earth. 

The  Pontal  Pneumaticosis  of  the  Ascended  Son  of 
God  completes  itself  in  the  union  without  fusion  of  the 
co-products.  The  regenerate  Disciples  are  united,  as  the 
body  with  the  soul,  to  their  ascended  Lord,  the  Son  of  Man. 
The  Disciples  are  thus  united  without  fusion  with  each  other 
into  an  organism,  whose  integrating  principle  is  the  Holy 
Spirit,  proceeding  from  the  Father  through  the  Ascended 
Son  of  INIan.  The  mediated  Holy  Spirit  dwells  in  the  regen- 
erated Disciples  as  individuals  and  as  an  organism.  This 
oro-anism  is  ecclesiastical  and  is  known  as  the  Christian 
Church,  organized  on  the  great  "Day  of  Pentecost." 

If  the  Holy  Spirit  mediated  by  the  Ascended  Son  of 
Man  dwells  in  the  true  Church,  then  the  Church  dwells  in  the 
Spiritual  womb  of  the  Ascended  Son  of  Man ;  and  this  ecclesi- 
astical Procession  is  Gestational.  This  Gestational  Proces- 
sion completes  itself  in  a  Divine  Psychical  Parturition.  This 
would  involve  the  moral  rectification  of  the  fallen  human 
Psychical  being  of  the  individual  members  of  the  Church  and 


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their  transformation  into  the  Divine  Psychical  image  of  their 
Lord — the  perfect  and  complete  moral  sanctification  and 
growth  in  grace  of  the  free  individual  units  (organs)  of  the 
Church. 

The  Ecclesiastical  Parturitional  act  completed,  the 
triunf'  God  functioning  in  the  Regeneratival  Procession 
through  the  mediation  of  the  Son  of  Man  imparts,  in  objec- 
tive Progression,  Divine  Psychical  being  to  Nature  and  in  the 
subjective  Progression  Pneumatical  Being  to  the  Saints. 
And  the  Holy  Spirit  proceeding  immediately  from  the  Father 
dwells  in  the  Pneumatically  transformed  Church ;  or  the 
Church  dwells  in  the  spiritual  womb  of  God — an  age-long 
Gestational  Procession. 

THE   GREATER   PROCESSIONS    OF   THE    THEAN- 
THROPOS  PRESENTED  IN  BRIEF  REVIEW. 

1.  The  Eternally  Begotten  Son  of  God  generates  in  the 
subjective  Progression  the  Divine  Psychical  Son  of  God,  in 
the  objective  Progressions,  the  Son  of  Man;  and  in  the  com- 
pletion of  the  Pontal  Procession  unites  them  without  fusion 
in  the  Theanthropos. 

2.  The  Theanthropos  as  the  Son  of  Man  incarnates  generic 
human  psychical  being  in  embryo  in  the  generic  human 
soma ;  and  the  Theanthropos  as  Divine  Psyche  in  embryo  is 
embodied  or  incarnated  in  the  Son  of  Man.  His  higher  being 
is  within  his  lower  and  therefore  germinates  after  it.  The 
Primal  (postnatal)  estate  of  the  Theanthropos  is  conscious 
human  Psychical  being  and  subconscious  Divine  Psychical 
Being. 

3.  The  Son  of  Man,  having  passed  through  tlie  Proces- 
sions that  related  him  to  his  earthly  parent,  becomes  imme- 
diately conscious  of  God  and  freely  acknowledges  and  obeys 
Him  as  Lord. 

4.  The  Son  of  Man,  as  an  individual  Man,  hears  the  call 
of  God  to  Messianic  service,  and  obeys  in  the  presentation 


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of  himself  for  baptism;  the  descending  Holy  Spirit  attests 
tlie  divine  acceptance  of  his  service  and  the  voice  from  heaven 
proclaimed  him  the  "beloved  Son." 

5.  The  Theanthropos,  as  the  Son  of  God,  rises  into  the 
Primal  or  Conscious  estate  of  Divine  Psychical  being,  and 
as  the  Son  of  Man  he  rises  into  the  Primal  or  conscious  estate 
of  generic  human  psychical  being  as  the  latter  successfully 
withstands  the  satanic  temptations  in  the  wilderness,  Jesus 
proved  himself  impeccable  in  this  hour  of  Trial  because  sus- 
tained and  supported  by  the  uprising  influences  of  the  incar- 
nate germinant  Divine  Psyche. 

6.  The  Theanthropos,  as  the  Son  of  Man,  rises  into  the 
Second  or  self-conscious  generic  estate  of  human  psychical 
being  as  he  yields  himself  as  the  organ  of  communication 
between  the  Divine  Psyche,  whom  he  incarnates,  and  the 
fallen  human  race.  And  the  incarnate  Divine  Psyche  rises 
into  the  Second  or  self-conscious  estate  as  in  obedience  to 
God,  he  consciously  descends  into  the  Son  of  Man  in  order 
to  communicate  the  truth  to  sin-blinded  man.  The  incarnate 
Son  of  God  thus  bears  fruit  upward  as  he  takes  root  down- 
ward in  the  Son  of  Man.  He  enjoys  higher  communion  with 
God  the  Father  as  he  unifies  himself  with  the  Son  of  Man 
and  through  him  with  the  fallen  race.  So  also  the  Son  of 
Man  achieves  a  higher  fellowship  with  the  incarnate  Son  of 
God  as  he  descends  to  mediate  the  divine  communication  with 
lost  man.  This  the  ante-crucifixion  ministry  of  the  Thean- 
thropos. 

7.  The  Crucial  Temptation  of  the  Theanthropos:  The 
incarnate  Son  of  God  and  the  Son  of  Man  who  incarnates 
Him  are  to  pass  together,  in  free  conspiracy,  tlirough  the 
final  Ethical  Psychosis.  And  each  is  infallible,  utterly 
impeccable — the  Son  of  God  in  His  own  strength,  and  the 
Son  of  Man  through  the  inspiration  of  the  Divine  incarnate 
Son  of  God,  and  both  are  free  in  the  obedience  they  are  com- 
manded to  render.  The  Son  of  God  freely  submits  himself 
to  the  first  penalty  consequent  upon  Adam's  disobedience — 


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alienation  from  God;  and  the  Son  of  Man,  inspired  by  the 
incarnate  Son,  freely  lays  down  his  life,  which  involves  sepa- 
ration or  projection  from  the  Divine  incarnate  Son  and  the 
death  of  the  body.  This  Procession  is  the  Son  of  Man's 
Ethical  Psychosis  transformed  and  raised  into  the  higher 
reahn  of  being.  The  Negation,  the  separation  or  the  Analy- 
sis is  actual.  The  Son  of  God  freely  suffers  separation  from 
God;  the  Son  of  Man  freely  consents  to  his  projection  from 
the  Son  of  God;  and  this  projectional  feature  is  symboled 
forth  in  the  normal  human  pro-generatival  procession.  This 
Procession  is  then  an  El;hico-Projectival  Psychosis.  Now 
every  true  or  legitimate  Analysis  has  its  complement  in  its 
co-ordinate  Synthesis.  A  higher  fellowship  with  God  and  a 
closer  parental  communion  with  the  Son  of  Man  is  the  divine 
reward  promised  the  obedient  Son  of  God  not  only  transcend- 
ently  but  also  corroboratively  in  the  very  laws  of  being.  So, 
also,  the  Son  of  Man,  crucified,  and  laid  in  the  Sepulcher, 
awaits  the  legitimate  resurrection  to  a  higher  filial  union  with 
the  Son  of  God  and  through  him  with  the  Father. 

8.  The  Resurrection  of  Our  Lord :  The  Son  of  God  in  the 
hour  of  death  (vicarious  alienation  from  the  fellowship  of 
God)  commits,  through  an  infallible  Faith,  his  spirit  into 
the  hands  of  his  Father;  and  therein  reaps  faith's  opulent 
reward — Pneumatical  Being.  He  ascends  into  the  bosom  of 
the  Father,  from  whence  he,  on  his  wonderful  mission  of  love, 
had  freely  descended.  And  God  the  Father,  through  the 
mediation  of  His  eternally  begotten  Son,  communicates  in 
the  objective  Progression  Divine  Psychical  being  to  the 
obedient  Son  of  Man  as  in  the  co-ordinate  subjective  Pro- 
gression He  imparts  Pneumatical  Being  to  the  Son  of  God. 
As  the  Pneumatically  transformed  Son  of  God  ascended  up 
into  heaven,  so  the  Son  of  Man,  dowered  with  Divine  Psychical 
being,  rose  from  the  dead,  the  express  image  of  the  ascended 
Son  of  God.  The  ascended  Son  of  God  and  the  resurrected 
Son  of  Man  enjoy  a  community  of  essence  in  their  Common 
Divine  Psychical  being.     They  are  related  to  each  other  as 


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Father  to  Son.  The  Son  of  God  is  to  complete  his  mission 
from  his  exalted  station  on  High  through  the  ministry  of  the 
Holy  Spirit ;  and  the  transformed  Son  of  Man  is  to  complete 
his  earthly  ministry  as  the  mediator  between  the  exalted  Son 
of  God  and  fallen  man.  This  Post-resurrection  ministry  of 
the  Son  of  man  is  Gestational.  The  Son  of  Man  is  enveloped 
in  the  pneumatical  womb  of  the  ascended  Son  of  God,  or  he  is 
indwelt  of  the  Spirit  of  his  ascended  Lord. 

9.  The  Post-Resurrection  Ministry  of  Our  Lord:  The 
Transformed  Son  of  Man  energized  by  the  Holy  Spirit  pro- 
ceeding from  the  ascended  Son  of  God  reveals  himself  to  his 
disciples  as  their  risen  Lord,  the  mediator  between  them  and 
their  ascended  Son  of  God.  In  the  free  discharge  of  this 
mediatorial  office  the  risen  Son  of  Man  is  self-evolved  into 
the  Second  or  self-conscious  estate  of  Divine  Psychical  being. 
And  he  bears  this  fruit  upward  as  he  takes  root  downward 
into  his  human  psychical  being.  That  is,  he  acquires  domin- 
ion over  his  human  psychical  body.  Synchronously,  the 
ascended  Son  of  God  is  self-evolved  unto  the  Second  or  Self- 
conscious  Estate  of  Pneumatical  Being  as  he  energizes  the 
Son  of  Man  in  this  Post-Resurrection  Revelation  of  himself 
to  Man ;  thus  he  reproduces  in  himself  the  eternally  begotten 
Son  of  God.  The  eyes  of  the  Disciples  are  opened  and  they 
see  in  the  transformed  Son  of  Man  the  Son  of  God,  the  com- 
plete fulfillment  of  the  scriptures,  and  their  Savior  from  sin 
unto  holy  filial  fellowship  with  God.  Their  minds  illumined 
by  the  spirit  of  their  Lord,  their  intellectual  belief  in  him  as 
the  Son  of  God  is  transformed  into  a  child-like  trust  on  him 
as  their  Savior. 

10.  The  Ascension  of  Our  Lord:  The  Disciples  believe  in 
the  risen  Son  of  Man  and  accept  him  as  their  Lord ;  and  the 
Son  of  Man's  earthly  mission  is  completely  fulfilled.  And  the 
Son  of  Man,  because  of  his  obedient  self-revelation  to  his 
Disciples,  is  Pneumatically  regenerated,  and  they,  freely  con- 
fessing him,  have  Divine  Psychical  Being  imparted  to  them. 
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pies  in  terms  of  the  Pontal  Pneumaticosis  of  God,  which 
comprehends  and  energizes  the  Reproductival  Progressions 
of  the  ascended  Son  of  God ;  energized  by  the  Father  through 
the  ministry  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  the  ascended  Son  functions 
in  subjective-objective  Pneumaticosic  Procession — the  sub- 
jective Progression  communicates  Pneumatical  being  of  the 
First  Estate  to  the  obedient  Son  of  Man;  and  the  objective 
Progression  imparts  Divine  Psychical  being  to  the  Disciples. 
The  Pneumatically  regenerate  Son  of  Man  ascends  into  the 
bosom  of  the  Father;  and  the  Divine  Psychically  regenerate 
disciples  obediently  assemble  themselves  in  Jerusalem  and 
prayerfully  await  the  promised  outpouring  of  the  Holy 
Spirit — which  is  fulfilled  in  the  completion  of  Pontal  Pneu- 
maticosis— when  they  are  united  with  the  ascended  Son  of 
Man  as  body  with  soul. 

11.  The  Pentecostal  Outpouring  of  the  Holy  Spirit:  This 
is  accomplished  on  the  Day  of  Pentecost.  The  Church  is 
instituted;  and  is  indwelt  of  the  Son  of  Man,  the  now  glori- 
fied Son  of  God,  through  the  ministry  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 
The  Church,  then,  is  a  freely  obedient  organism,  comprising 
as  many  organs  as  there  are  freely  obedient  individual  mem- 
bers. The  indwelling  Holy  Spirit,  proceeding  immediately 
from  the  now  glorified  Son  of  Man,  integrates  the  differ- 
entiated organs  into  an  organism  and  unites  the  ecclesiastical 
organism  with  its  Lord.  "And  when  the  Day  of  Pentecost 
was  fully  come,  they  were  all  with  one  accord  in  one  place. 
And  suddenly  there  came  a  sound  from  heaven  as  of  a  rushing 
mighty  wind,  and  it  filled  all  the  house  where  they  were  sit- 
ting. And  there  appeared  unto  them,  as  it  were,  cloven 
tongues  as  of  fire,  and  it  sat  upon  each  of  them.  And  they 
were  all  filled  with  the  Holy  Spirit."  Thus  begins  another 
Gestational  Procession.  The  Church,  constituent  of  free 
organs,  commences  its  life  in  the  spiritual  womb  of  the  glori- 
fied Son  of  Man. 

12.  The  Glorified  Son  of  Man's  mediated  ministry  falls 
under  three  distinct  heads,  or  Processions:   (1)  The  revela- 

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tion  of  God  the  Father  to  fallen  man  through  the  mediation 
of  the  Church  functioning  freely  as  his  body.  That  is,  the 
Church  in  the  power  of  the  indwelling  Holy  Spirit  proclaims 
the  Gospel.  "And  (they)  began  to  speak  with  other  tongues 
as  the  Spirit  gave  them  utterance."  "Now,  when  this  was 
noised  abroad,  the  multitude  came  together  and  were  dumb- 
founded because  that  every  man  heard  them  speak  in  his  own 
language."  The  Church  here  functions  as  the  body  of  its 
Lord.  (2)  The  mediatorial  Regeneration  of  them  that 
accept  as  their  Lord  the  Christ  preached  them  by  Church. 
Here  the  Church  functions  as  the  loyal  bride  of  her  Lord. 
"Then  they  that  gladly  receive  his  word  were  baptized.  And 
the  same  day  there  were  added  (unto  the  church)  about  three 
thousand  souls."  (3)  The  Indoctrination  and  Sanctifica- 
tion  of  the  saints  through  the  maternal  mediation  of  the 
Church.  "And  they  (embracing  those  born  of  the  church) 
continued  steadfastly  in  the  Apostles'  doctrine  and  fellow- 
ship, and  in  breaking  of  bread  and  in  prayer." 

The  Divine  Procedure  in  the  Recovery  of  Fallen  Man: 

(1)  In  the  Fall  Man  subordinated  his  Psychical  Being 
under  his  physical  organism,  he  inverted  his  normal  self, 
thereby  shutting  out  the  vision  of  God  and  hypostatizing 
nature.  His  provisional  or  tentative  restoration  to  the  pris- 
tine condition  whence  he  fell  will  involve  the  ideal  not  the 
actual  inversion  of  himself  and  the  ideal  subordination  of 
Nature  to  God.  It  is  to  be  noted  that  the  inversion  of  man's 
normal  being  lowered  his  being  into  the  Realm  of  Evil,  whence 
he  is  non-self-Salvable.  He  knows  not  God  but  slavishly 
worships  Nature.  The  Divine  Psyche  as  a  living  personal 
lever  is  not  long  enough  to  reach  man  fallen  into  the  Realm 
of  Evil,  nor  is  sin-blinded  man  able  to  know  or  to  accept  him 
as  Savior  were  it  possible  for  the  eternally  begotten  Son  to 
bridge  the  awful  gulf  that  separates  between  the  Holy  God 
and  the  lost  sinful  soul  of  man.  The  living  personal  Lever 
is  lengthened,  to  span  the  humanly  speaking  immeasurable 


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chasm,  in  the  Theanthropos.  But  how  shall  man  lying  in 
the  Realm  of  Evil  know  him  or  desire  him  when  he  comes? 
Therefore  he  comes  only  in  the  fullness  of  time,  namely,  when 
man  has,  in  the  divine  providence,  been  duly  prepared  to 
accept  (or  to  reject)  him.  This  preparation  can  be  accom- 
plished only  through  the  Divine  Intervention.  This  Divine 
preparation  of  man  for  the  free  acceptance  or  rejection  of 
the  promised  Savior  embraces  several  Dispensations  and 
introductory  or  connecting  links ;  they  are  the  Patriarchal, 
the  Mosaic,  the  incarnate  Son's  earthly  Prophetical  and  the 
Post-Resurrectional  Dispensations. 

(2)  The  Patriarchal  Dispensation,  or  Procession  intro- 
duced by  the  covenant  of  mercy  wherein  God,  who  "doth 
magnify  his  word  above  all  his  name"  promised  Adam  and 
through  Adam  the  human  race  that  "the  seed  of  the  woman 
should  bruise  the  head  of  the  serpent."  In  visions  and 
dreams  God  reveals  himself  and  his  will  to  the  Patriarchs, 
and  thus  providentially  leads  them.  Moreover  by  objective 
Miracles  He  seeks  to  remove  from  them  the  hypostatical 
obsession  of  Nature.  In  like  manner  in  the  Bondage  of 
Israel  in  Egypt  God  sought  to  free  his  chosen  people  from 
the  even  more  relentless  subjective  bondage  to  the  Flesh. 
This  Dispensation  corresponds  to  the  First  Psychosic  Pro- 
cession of  Adam's  son. 

(3)  The  Introductory  Visional  Procession  and  the  Eth- 
ical Dispensation.  God  liberates  his  chosen  people  and 
"leads  them  like  a  flock  by  the  hands  of  Moses  and  Aaron." 
God  enters  into  a  solemn  covenant  with  his  chosen  people. 
He  reaffirms  his  promise  to  give  them  eternal  life  through  his 
symbolically  revealed  Son;  they  solemnly  covenant  "to 
observe  his  commandments  to  do  them."  And  here  is  pro- 
vided the  most  wonderful  betokenment  of  the  infinite  love  of 
God  for  fallen  man.  Failure  on  the  part  of  his  chosen  people 
to  keep  their  covenant  is  not  to  be  fatal ;  but  on  the  contrary 
is  anticipated  and  graciously  made  the  negative  condition  of 
their  salvation.  Through  the  great  kindergarten  school  of  the 


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Temple  service,  his  people  are  made  to  apprehend  in  some 
measure  the  Immaculate  holiness  of  God  and  by  contrast  the 
utter  uncleanness  of  themselves.  They  go  by  proxy  in  the 
person  of  the  High  Priest,  ceremonially  cleansed,  once  a 
year  on  the  great  day  of  atonement,  bearing  the  blood- 
sacrifice  for  their  sins.  They  are  thus  made  to  realize  that 
their  sin  separates  between  the  Holy  God  and  themselves; 
and  they  are  thereby  moved,  the  Divine  Spirit  co-operating, 
to  look  forward  to  the  sinless  and  immaculately  holy  mediator 
symbolicalh^  betokened  in  the  earthl}^  High  Priest  and  pro- 
claimed by  the  inspired  Prophets.  By  faith  accepting  the 
promised  Savior,  they  have  their  sins  blotted  out  as  a  thick 
cloud.  Isaiah's  experience  in  the  beautiful  vision  divinely 
vouchsafed  him  (Isa.  6)  typifies  perfectly  that  of  every 
repentant  Israelite.  "Then  said  I,  Woe  is  me !  for  I  am  undone 
(cut  off)  :  because  I  am  a  man  of  unclean  lips,  and  I  dwell  in 
the  midst  of  a  people  of  unclean  lips :  for  mine  eyes  have  seen 
the  King,  the  Lord  of  Hosts.  Then  flew  one  of  the  Seraphims 
unto  me,  having  a  live  coal  in  his  hand,  which  he  had  taken 
with  the  tongs  from  off  the  altar.  And  he  laid  it  upon  my 
mouth  and  said,  Lo,  this  hath  touched  thy  lips ;  and  thine 
iniquit}^  is  taken  away  and  thy  sin  is  purged.  Also  I  heard 
the  voice  of  the  Lord."  From  all  past  sins  the  repentant 
and  believing  Jew  is  absolved.  But  law  has  not  yet  been 
transferred  from  the  Tables  of  Stone  to  the  believer's  human 
heart.  The  believing  Israelite  under  this  Dispensation  is 
salvable  from  inward  sin  only  in  death.  Thus  the  Law  is  a 
schoolmaster  to  lead  men  to  Jesus  Christ.  This  Dispensa- 
tion corresponds  to  the  Moral  Psychosic  Procession  of 
Adam's  Son. 

(4)  The  Ministry  of  John  the  Baptist  and  the  earthh^ 
ministry  of  Jesus  Christ  to  which  it  is  introductory.  The 
Baptist's  ministry  looked  backward  as  well  as  forward;  it 
functioned  as  a  bridge  between  the  Mosaic  Dispensation  and 
the  earthly  ministry  of  Jesus  Christ.  Its  office  was  to  bring 
to  the  Jewish  consciousness  their  failure  under  the  law  to 


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achieve  salvation  from  sin  and  to  point  them  to  "the  Lamb 
of  God  that  taketh  away  the  sin  of  the  world."  John 
taught  what  the  sinner  should  turn  from  and  whom  he 
should  turn  to  for  salvation  from  sin.  Jesus,  the  Christ, 
having  assumed  in  baptism  the  sin  of  the  world  taught  men 
that  Salvation  from  sin  is  to  be  achieved  only  in  the  complete 
Salvation  unto  holiness.  He  therefore  taught  them  the 
humanly  unattainable  positive  virtues ;  that  a  given  action 
shall  not  only  conform  to  objective  law  but  also  that  it  shall 
be  the  expression  of  a  holy  character.  "Be  ye  perfect  there- 
fore even  as  your  Father  which  is  in  heaven  is  perfect." 
Thus  upon  moral  bankrupts  he  laid  the  supreme  moral  obli- 
gation and  thereby  convicts  them  of  subjective  sin,  which 
deprived  them  of  all  hope  of  self-salvation.  Having  reduced 
them  to  this  desperate  extremity,  he  discovers  himself  to  them 
as  "the  Way,  the  Truth  and  the  Life,"  and  declares  that  only 
in  and  through  him  could  they  attain  unto  holiness.  But  he 
now  announces  to  them  the  astounding  paradox,  that  he  who 
is,  the  Way,  the  Truth  and  the  Life,  must  suffer  many  things 
of  the  Elders,  and  chief  Priests  and  Scribes  and  be  killed  and 
be  raised  again  the  third  day.  And  because  of  this  Prophecy 
he  suffered  the  arrogant  rebuke  of  a  disciple.  In  reply  he 
announced  the  universality  of  the  Law.  "If  any  man  will 
come  after  me,  let  him  deny  himself  and  take  up  his  cross  and 
follow  me.  For  whosoever  will  save  his  life  (psyche)  shall 
lose  it;  and  whosoever  will  lose  his  psyche  for  my  sake  shall 
find  it."  Now  the  prophecy  of  his  death  and  resurrection 
needs  fulfillment  in  order  to  produce  intellectual  conviction 
on  the  part  of  his  followers. 

(5)  The  Prophecy  Fulfilled.  Our  risen  Lord  reveals  him- 
self to  his  disciples  and  they  recognize  and  acknowledge  him 
as  a  true  and  properly  accredited  prophet  of  God.  The 
death  and  Resurrection  of  Jesus  Christ  are  to  the  disciples 
known  facts  which  fulfilling  scripture  prophecy  as  well  as 
his  own  validates  his  claim  to  be  the  Son  of  God,  the  Savior 
of  men.     Under  the  illuminating  influence  of  his  spirit  the 


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disciples  freely  acknowledge  him  as  their  Lord;  and  he  and 
they  are  regenerated  by  the  ascended  Son  of  God ;  the  one 
Pneumatically,  the  other  Divine  Psychically. 

(6)  In  obedience  to  their  ascended  Lord,  the  disciples, 
setting  their  earthly  interests  aside,  gather  at  the  appointed 
place  and  prayerfully  await  the  descent  of  the  promised  Holy 
Spirit.  Their  loyal  obedience  is  divinely  acknowledged  in 
the  coming  of  the  Holy  Spirit  proceeding  from  the  Father 
and  the  Son,  and  they  are,  severally  and  as  one,  united  to 
their  ascended  Lord  and  endued  with  the  spiritual  power 
freely  to  fulfill  their  great  commission — "But  ye  shall  receive 
power  after  that  the  Holy  Ghost  is  come  upon  you;  and  ye 
shall  be  witnesses  unto  me  both  in  Jerusalem  and  in  all 
Judea  and  in  Samaria,  and  unto  the  uttermost  part  of  the 
earth." 

(7)  Now  each  of  the  Disciples  passed  from  spiritual  death 
unto  life  eternal  by  vfay  of  the  Cross ;  each  died  unto  himself 
and  was  raised  by  regeneration  into  Divine  Psychical  being, 
each  freely  became  a  partaker  in  the  death  and  by  gracious 
consequence  also  in  the  resurrection  life  of  his  Lord.  "For  if 
we  have  been  planted  together  in  the  likeness  of  his  death, 
we  shall  be  also  in  the  likeness  of  his  resurrection."  As  the 
blood  baptism  of  their  Lord  assured  his  resurrection,  so  the 
blood  baptism  (death  to  self)  infallibly  secured  the  regenera- 
tion (resurrection  into  Divine  Psychical  being)  of  the  believ- 
ing disciples.  The  regeneration  of  the  repentant  sinner  is 
(as  we  have  seen)  the  actual  impartation  to  him  of  inalienable 
Divine  Psychical  being  and  this  actually  and  organically  and 
not  metaphorically  unites  him  to  his  Lord. 

(8)  Because  the  Son  of  Man  is  the  Genus  Homo  not  in 
potentiality  but  in  very  actuality — the  Son  of  Man  actualized 
in  himself  (in  generation)  the  entire  human  race.  Whatever 
he  did  and  suffered  was  done  and  suffered  by  him  as  the  actual 
head  of  the  human  race,  and  therefore  for  and  in  behalf  of 
the  fallen  ]\Ian.  He  is  the  Leader  and  they  that  would  appro- 
priate  the   benefits    of  his   vicarious   passage   through    this 


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world  unto  God  must  of  logical  necessity  take  up  their  cross 
and  follow  him,  the  Author  and  Perfector,  the  Beginner  and 
Finisher  of  Faith,  and  their  passage  must  correspond  pro- 
cession for  procession  with  that  of  their  Lord. 

(9)  Sanctification  of  the  Regenerate  Human  Psyche.  In 
the  Christian's  regenerate  or  implanted  Divine  Psychical 
being  there  is  no  sin ;  but  there  remains  sin  in  his  human  psy- 
chical being  and  his  body  is  still  subject  to  disease  and  death. 
The  work  of  our  Lord  in  the  new  born  Christian  is  as  yet 
incomplete.  The  fallen  psychical  being  is  to  be  renewed  and 
transformed  unto  the  image  of  our  Lord's,  and  its  body  is  to 
be  transformed  unto  the  image  of  our  renewed  psychical  being. 
Evidently  the  transformation  of  our  bodies  is  consequential 
on  the  renewal  of  our  fallen  psychical  being.  "I  beseech 
you  therefore,  Brethren,  by  the  mercies  of  God  that  ye  pre- 
sent your  bodies  a  living  sacrifice  holy,  acceptable  unto  God 
which  is  your  reasonable  (rational)  service.  And  be  not  con- 
formed to  this  world ;  but  be  ye  transformed  by  the  renewing 
(renovation)  of  your  mind  (psyche),  that  ye  may  prove 
what  is  that  good  and  acceptable  and  perfect  Will  of  God" 
(which  is  completely  personalized  in  the  glorified  Christ). 
Now  Sanctification  is  the  work  of  the  Holy  spirit,  Avho  ener- 
gizes the  self-evolution  of  the  Divine  Psychical  being  implant- 
ed or  incarnated  in  the  repentant  sinner.  The  incarnate  Divine 
Psychical  being,  in  its  self-evolution  takes  root  downward  in 
the  human  psychical  being  and  bears  fruit  upward  in  self- 
conscious  divine  Psychical  being;  the  human  psyche  set  free 
by  the  energizing  of  his  regenerate  being  breaks  "the  yoke 
of  the  Flesh  off  from  its  neck"  through  the  indwelling  power 
of  the  Holy  Spirit;  and  then  again  in  the  strength  of  its 
ascended  Lord  ministered  by  the  Holy  Spirit  the  human 
psyche  co-operates  with  his  Divine  Psychical  being  in  posi- 
tively good  action.  This  process  indefinitely  prolonged 
issues  in  the  complete  dominion  of  the  Divine  Psychical  being 
of  the  Christian  over  his  human  psychical  being  and  his 
human   psychical   being   over   his   physical   organism.     The 


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human  psj'che  at  the  time  of  its  regeneration  though  gra- 
ciously granted  the  ability  to  make  a  righteous  choice  is  still 
subjectively  under  the  yoke  of  the  Flesh  and  therefore  dead 
in  sin.  And  yet  objectively  justified  by  the  imputed  right- 
eousness of  his  Lord,  he  is  given  through  the  ministry  of  the 
Holy  Spirit  the  power  progressively  to  achieve  subjective 
righteousness,  or  entire  sanctification.  "But  as  many  as 
received  him  to  them  gave  he  the  power  to  become  the  sons 
of  God,  to  them  that  believe  on  his  name ;  which  were  born  not 
of  blood,  nor  of  the  will  of  the  flesh,  nor  of  the  will  of  man, 
but  of  God."  But  they  are  to  work  out  their  sanctification 
in  co-operation  with  God.  "Work  out  your  own  salvation 
with  fear  and  trembling;  for  it  is  God  that  worketh  in  you 
both  to  will  and  to  do  of  his  good  pleasure."  Because  the  Chris- 
tian, though  sinless  in  his  regenerate  being,  is  in  his  human 
psychical  being  still  evil,  the  doing  of  a  good  action  though 
wrought  in  him  by  God  involves  two  processes,  namely,  the 
Negation  or  Repression  of  the  evil  impulse  and  the  actional 
affirmation  or  expression  of  the  corresponding  divinely 
awakened  good  impulse.  The  Christian  is  commanded, 
"Resist  not  evil  but  overcome  evil  with  good."  He  can  break 
off  his  sins  only  by  and  through  righteous  actions.  The  lead- 
ing evil  propensions  born  of  self-assertion  are  sensuality, 
greed,  pride,  hate,  covetousness,  cowardice,  malevolence — 
these  our  inheritance  from  disloyal  Adam.  The  correspond- 
ing virtuous  propulsions,  born  of  the  instinctive  self-negating 
obedience  of  Adam  in  his  First  Psychosic  Procession  and 
actually  Negated  or  inverted  in  the  "Fall  of  Man,"  are  (in 
their  simple  estate)  spiritually,  generosity,  humility,  love, 
gratulation,  courage,  benevolence.  The  sin  of  self-assertion 
against  God  progressively  transformed  the  original  simple 
virtues  into  positively  sinful  estates.  Then  the  sanctification 
of  the  regenerate  human  soul  must  involve  the  transformation 
of  evil  or  vicious  propensions  into  the  Positive  virtues.  This 
the  sinner  is  not  able  in  his  own  strength  to  do.  He  may 
indeed  and  often  does  play  one  sin  against  another;  as  per- 


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sonal,  family,  or  national  pride  against  lying,  dishonesty  or 
cowardice.  Man  may  reform  his  life  with  respect  to  any 
particular  vice ;  but  he  can  accomplish  this  partial  reforma- 
tion only  through  the  mediation  of  an  already  stronger  vice — 
he  frees  himself  of  one  vice  only  to  rivet  more  strongly  the 
chains  of  another.  This  is  true  because  all  sinful  propen- 
sions  are  begotten  of  the  evil  spirit  of  self-assertion ;  and  they 
can  only  be  overcome  and  transformed  (in  the  sense  that 
minus  may  be  changed  into  plus)  into  virtues  through  the 
power  of  the  Holy  Spirit  energizing  the  regenerate  or  Divine 
Psychical  being  of  the  Christian.  If  the  self-asserting  spirit 
of  the  fallen  human  psyche  begets  as  its  offspring  the  evil  or 
vicious  actions,  so  the  implanted  Divine  Psychical  being  of 
the  Christian  begets  as  its  offspring  the  corresponding  vir- 
tuous action.  Now,  the  channel  of  expression  has  been  pre- 
empted in  the  preregenerate  life  by  vicious  actions ;  and  be- 
cause the  spirit  of  self-assertion  guards  the  door  of  the  chan- 
nel of  expression,  its  offspring  have  grown  formidable  in  their 
robust  strength.  Even  the  imparted  Divine  Psychical  being 
is  (unassisted)  utterly  unable  to  cope  successfully  with  the 
strongly  entrenched  enemy.  God  alone  in  the  person  of  the 
Holy  Spirit  is  able  to  regenerate;  God  alone  in  the  person  of 
the  Holy  Spirit  is  able  to  sanctify  the  regenerate  soul.  And 
yet  the  Christian  must  work  out  his  sanctification  in  a  life  of 
free  and  increasingly  full  obedience.  The  human  co-opera- 
tion, divinely  energized  and  sustained,  comprises  two  steps, 
which  are:  (a)  The  Evil  Propension  (asserting  itself  in  con- 
sciousness) is  Negated,  Repressed,  or  Reduced  to  the  focal 
point;  (b)  the  correlative  good  is  Affirmed  or  Expressed  in 
appropriate  action.  The  Negation  of  the  Evil  in  its  total  or 
completed  process  half  inverts  the  soul's  inversion;  it  brings 
it  up  to  the  focal  point ;  or  it  "breaks  the  yoke  of  the  flesh  off 
from  its  neck."  The  actional  affirmation  of  the  good  in  its 
total  process  brings  the  emancipated  soul  into  dominion  over 
the  Flesh  and  perfects  it  as  the  inner  body  or  organ  of  the 
implanted  Divine  Psychical  being. 


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10.  The  co-operative  functioning  of  the  implanted  Divine 
Psychical  being  in  the  eanctification  of  the  Christian  is  like- 
wise twofold:  (a)  The  germinant  Divine  Psychical  being 
in  energizing  the  Negative  or  Repressional  Process  of  the 
human  psychical  being  does  in  its  total  Process  Negate  the 
spirit  of  self-assertion — brings  to  Naught  the  Parent  of 
vicious  propensions;  (b)  the  Divine  Psychical  being  in  ener- 
gizing the  Positive  or  actionally  Affirmative  Processes  of  the 
human  psyche  actualizes  in  itself  the  Positive  Spirit  of  self- 
sacrifice  the  parent  of  all  the  virtues  which  it  has  propagated 
through  the  freely  conspiring  human  psyche. 

11.  Sanctification,  the  moral  rectification  and  growth  in 
grace  of  the  Christian,  then  involves  the  progressive  renewal 
or  renovation  of  his  fallen  being  and  the  actualization  of  his 
normally  potential  virtuous  estates  of  being.     He  is  "trans- 
formed by  the  renewing  of  his  mind"  (human  psyche).      And 
this  is   accomplished,  as  we  have  seen,  by  his   co-operative 
Repression  of  evil  propensions  and  the  actional  expression 
of     the     divinely     inspired     emotions     toward     the     good. 
Expressed  in  brief  form,  the  Law  of  Sanctification  is:  Sup- 
press   the    evil,    express    the    Good — in    the    appropriated 
strength  of  "God  that  worketh  in  you  both  to  Will  and  to 
do."     "Who  shall  separate  us  from  the  love  Christ.?      Shall 
tribulation  or  distress,  or  persecution,  or  famine,  or  naked- 
ness, or  peril,  or  sword?     Nay,  in  all  these  things  we  are 
more  than  conquerors  through  him   that  loved  us.      For  I 
am  persuaded  that  neither  death,  nor  life,  nor  angels,  nor 
principalities,  nor  powers,  nor  things  present,  nor  things  to 
come,  nor  height,  nor  depth,  nor  any  other  creature,  shall  be 
able  to  separate  us  from  the  love  of  God,  which  is  in  Christ 
Jesus  our  Lord."     Now  the  work  of  sanctification  is  not  for 
the  present  at  least  completed  in  the  individual  Christian's 
earthly  life.      The  body  is  still  subject  to  disease  and  death, 
which  last  intervenes  to  arrest  the  process.    Yet,  at  death,  the 
Lord   graciously    completes   the   process    and    the    departed 
saint  awakes  in  the  Divine  Psychical  image  of  his  Lord.     At 


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the  second  coming  of  his  Lord  he  is  to  be  pneumatically  trans- 
formed and  reunited  with  his  resurrection  body. 

12.  "And  he  shall  turn  the  heart  of  the  fatliers  to  the 
children,  and  the  heart  of  the  children  to  the  fathers  lest  I 
come  and  smite  the  earth  with  a  curse."  (Last  word  of 
the  Old  Testament.)  But  since  the  sanctified  life  of  the  indi- 
vidual Christian  tends  to  overcome  physical  as  well  as  mental 
disease  may  it  not  well  be  that  in  the  long  continued  progress 
of  Christianity  the  body  may  be  restored  in  large  measure 
to  its  forfeited  health  and  strength  and  its  sinful  propensions 
be  brought  at  least  under  negative  control?  The  facts  of 
the  really  Christian  Reproductival  Psychosis  confirms  this 
hope.  The  capital  sin,  the  first-born  of  the  spirit  of  Self- 
Assertion,  is  Sensuality,  whose  very  heart  is  sexual  impurity. 
The  progressive  transformation  of  the  sensual  soul  into  its 
pristine  health  and  purity  accomplished  in  sanctification  as 
set  forth  above  finds  its  efficient  complement  in  the  Christian 
Reproductival  Psychosis.  We  found  in  the  case  of  hypo- 
thetically  regenerate  Adam,  that  it  was  his  regenerate  or 
Divine  Psychical  being  that  enabled  him  to  multiply  his 
human  psychical  being  without  fission  in  offspring.  Here 
the  regenerate  or  Divine  Psychical  being  of  the  Christian 
functions  in  like  manner  tending  to  overcome  in  the  progen- 
erated  offspring  the  otherwise  fatal  fissional  effects  of  the 
sin  of  our  first  parents  ;  and  the  law  thus  operating  in  genera- 
tion after  generation  progressively  purifies  the  soul  of  the 
offspring  of  the  successive  progenerations.  Now  this 
reproductival  restoration  of  the  human  psychical  being  to  its 
original  wholeness  and  purity  seems  to  be  not  merely  a  neces- 
sary logical  inference  but  also  one  of  the  most  precious  doc- 
trines of  the  Lord  Christ.  The  lesson,  that  the  Church  deep- 
ens and  extends  its  sanctification  through  the  Reproductival 
Psychosis,  is  taught  in  the  Parable  of  the  Growing  Seed. 
"So  is  the  Kingdom  of  God,  as  if  a  man  should  cast  seed 
into  the  ground ;  and  should  sleep  and  rise  night  and  day,  and 
the  seed  should  spring  and  grow  up,  he  knoweth  not  how. 


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For  the  earth  bringeth  forth  fruit  of  herself ;  first  the  blade, 
then  the  ear,  after  that  the  full  corn  in  the  ear.  But  when 
the  fruit  is  brought  forth,  immediately  he  putteth  in  the 
sickle  because  the  harvest  is  come."  The  Palingenesis  waits 
upon  tlie  coming  of  the  heavenly  harvest.  And  this  becomes 
more  certain  when  the  Divine  co-agency  with  the  Christian 
in  his  progeneration  of  offspring  is  duly  considered.  The 
Reproductival  Psychosis  is  only  legitimately  undertaken  in 
obedience  to  the  Divine  Command — "Increase  and  multiply 
and  replenish  the  earth."  This  command  can  be  heard  and 
obeyed  only  as  the  Holy  Spirit  energizes  the  Christian  par- 
ents or  as  they  dwell  foetus-like  in  the  womb  of  the  Holy 
Spirit.  The  ideal  Christian  life  in  its  highest  or  Divine 
Psychical  being  is  a  Gestational  Procession,  energized  and 
sustained  by  the  Holy  Spirit.  The  presence  and  co-agency 
of  the  Holy  Spirit  progressively  sanctifies  the  parents  and 
also  the  progenei'ated  offspring.  The  offspring  begins  its 
foetal  existence  in  a  purer  condition  than  did  its  progenitors. 
That  the  progressive  sanctification  of  the  Christian  race  will 
finally  issue  in  the  progeneration  of  human  psychical  beings 
completely  purged  of  original  sin  is  the  necessary  inference 
both  of  philosophy  and  of  Christian  doctrine.  The  Palin- 
genesis cannot  come  until  sin  has  been  overcome;  for  that 
involves  the  Pneumatical  transformation  of  the  believing 
human  race,  and  the  Divine  Psychical  regeneration  of  Nature. 
Again,  santification  is  the  joint  work  of  our  ascended  Lord 
and  of  the  regenerate  co-active  believer,  the  enthroned  Son 
of  God  accomplishing  his  co-operative  work  through  the  min- 
istry of  the  Holy  Spirit,  proceeding  from  the  Father  and  the 
Son.  This  is  then  the  Dispensation  of  the  Holy  Spirit  and 
if  this  Dispensation  falls  short  of  final  and  entire  sanctifica- 
tion of  the  Church,  then  it  must  in  some  sense  be  pronounced 
a  failure. 

13.  The  bodies  of  legitimately  progenerated  offspring 
tend  to  be  relieved  of  the  consequences  of  original  sin;  and 
more  and  more  subjected  under  their  increasingly  purified 


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human  psyches,  they  are  likewise  progressively  restored  to 
original  physical  soundness  and  health.  But  since  the  per- 
fect purification  of  the  human  psyche  must  anticipate  the 
complete  restoration  of  the  body,  the  latter  must  with  the 
Creation  await  "the  manifestation  of  the  Sons  of  God"  con- 
ditioning the  Palingenesis.  The  Goal  that  conditions  the 
Palingenesis  is  doubtless  far  removed  from  our  attainment; 
but  every  advance  brings  us  nearer  its  ultimate  realization 
and  inspires  large  hope  for  the  christianized  human  race. 
Even  now  we  may  know  that  every  son  begotten  of  us  unto 
God  is  of  purer  soul  than  ourself  and  divinely  assured  of 
salvation.  It  is  perfectly  safe  to  affirm  that  children  begot- 
ten of  Christian  parents  unto  God  are  not  as  the  children  of 
others.  Small  respect  they  pay  unto  God,  "Who  breaks  not 
this  covenant  nor  alters  the  thing  that  has  gone  forth  from 
His  lips,"  that  teach  as  Bible  doctrine  that  all  children  by 
whomsover  begotten  are  alike  and  equally  salvable  with  them 
that  are  born  under  the  covenant. 

14.  The  infant  of  Christian  parents  begotten  under  the 
energizing  influence  of  the  Holy  Spirit  with  a  somewhat  puri- 
fied soul  and  a  measurably  restored  body  will,  if  morally  neg- 
lected and  immorally  assaulted  from  without,  more  certainly 
than  Adam  fall  into  actual  sin.  But  God  has  most 
graciously  provided  against  just  this  contingency.  The 
infant  born  of  truly  Christian  parents  achieves  the  First 
Psychosic  Procession  (which  is  a  human  psychical  Gesta- 
tional Procession)  in  the  human  psychical  womb  of  the 
parents.  It  is  therefore  not  only  shielded  from  all  harm  and 
hurt  but  sympathetically,  affectionally  and  religiously  ener- 
gized in  this  Procession  by  its  parents,  who  at  the  same  time 
mediate  the  covenanted  ministry  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  Let  it 
be  understood,  that  no  true  education  can  be  unmoral,  much 
less  immoral.  Nature  as  the  word  of  the  Divine  Psyche  and 
therefore  of  God  to  man  has  not  been  superseded  but  only 
graciously  supplemented  by  God's  higher  revelation  of  Him- 
self in  His  Written  and  Living  Words.     Therefore  Nature  is 


140      THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

to  be  presented  to  the  child  of  the  covenant  by  its  parents  as 
the  Primal  Self-Revelation  of  God  to  Man.  It  is  not  extrav- 
agant to  affirm  that  very  often  the  finished  product  of  the 
education  of  our  day,  even  more  than  in  the  past,  is  actually 
disqualified  to  receive  a  vision  of  God  through  the  medium  of 
Nature,  In  order  that  the  Christian  parent  (or  tutor) 
shall  approach  perfection  as  a  teacher,  he  must  know  God 
not  only  as  He  has  revealed  Himself  in  his  Written  and  in  the 
Personal  Word  but  also  as  He  has  revealed  Himself  in  Nature. 
The  objection  that  Nature  is  out  of  joint,  that  she  partici- 
pated in  the  consequences  of  the  Fall  of  Man,  avails  nothing; 
for  supplemented  by  the  higher  Word,  the  knovrledge  of 
Nature  as  now  existent  confirms  the  revelation  of  God  in 
Christ  and  furnishes  abundant  fundamental,  existerial  sym- 
bols upon  which  the  Christian  superstructure  may  rationally 
rest.  As  Jesus  saw  Nature  so  should  our  children  be  taught 
to  see  it. 

15.  The  human  Psychical  Gestational  Procession  com- 
pletes itself  in  the  Act  of  Parturition  and  the  son  becomes 
conscious  at  once  of  his  moral  free  agency  and  of  his  filial 
obligation  to  his  earthly  father  who  affirms  his  right  to  rule 
over  him.  The  eugenically  born  and  well-trained  son  freely 
acknowledges  the  parental  authority  and  the  divine  Psychical 
spirit  of  the  parents  is  infused  into  the  son;  or  the  son  is 
enveloped  in  the  Divine  Psychical  Spirit  of  the  father.  And 
the  moral  Gestational  Progression  (answering  to  the  Legal 
Dispensation)  begins.  The  moral  Gestational  Procession 
(as  thus  arbitrarily  distinguished  from  the  Ethical)  func- 
tions, from  the  parental  side,  in  the  moral  instruction  and 
government  of  the  offspring  and  from  the  filial  side  in  the 
free  and  loyal  actional  response  of  the  son.  This  Procession 
completes  itself  in  the  act  of  more  or  less  perfect  moral  Par- 
turition. 

16.  The  Ethical  Psychosis.  The  act  of  moral  Parturition 
accomplished,  the  son  is  prepared  to  receive  the  Gospel  mes- 
sage, accompanied  by  the  presence  and  agency  of  the  Holy 


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Spirit,  proceeding  from  the  Father  and  the  risen  and 
ascended  Son.  The  parents  as  an  organ  of  the  Church  or 
the  Church  through  its  accredited  messenger  or  both  in  loving 
conspiracy,  preach  to  the  son  Christ  and  him  crucified,  the 
Savior  of  men.  The  son,  however  nearly  he  may  have 
approached  outward  conformity  to  the  precepts  of  the  moral 
law,  becomes  conscious  under  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel 
energized  by  the  Holy  Spirit  of  his  utter  lack  of  inward  con- 
formity to  Christ's  standard  of  perfect  holiness. 

He  is  to  choose  between  the  service  of  the  Son  of  God 
and  the  selfish  acquisition  of  the  world.  Like  Adam  and  the 
Son  of  Man  he  is  led  by  the  Spirit  into  the  Ethical  Psychosis  ; 
unlike  them  he  is  energized  by  the  solemnly  covenanted  min- 
istry of  the  Holy  Spirit.  For  faith  is  the  gracious  gift  of 
God.  In  the  power  of  Jesus  Christ  he  shares  in  his  vicarious 
triumph  over  sin;  and  is  by  consequence  Divine  Psychically 
regenerated.  The  son  thus  becomes  a  membral  organ  of  the 
Church,  our  Lord's  bride,  and  as  such  is  personally  indwelt 
of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

17.  The  "Parable  of  the  Growing  Seed"  has  not  been  per- 
mitted to  yield  up  its  richest,  most  precious  truth — the  foetal 
regeneration  of  the  offspring  of  the  Christian.  No  Branch 
of  the  Church  universal  teaches  or  has  ever  taught  this  great 
truth ;  and  yet  the  doctrine  seems  to  be  clearly  implied  if  not 
expressly  taught  in  both  the  Old  and  the  New  Testament. 
Of  course  there  was  no  foetal  Regeneration  under  the  old 
Dispensation — there  was  not  even  an  adult  regeneration — 
for  the  reason  that  the  Spirit  that  led  and  energized  the  Old 
Testament  Saints  was  Divine  Psychical  and  not  Pneumatical, 
it  not  being  legitimately  possible  that  the  Holy  Spirit  could 
be  sent  in  regenerating  grace  antecendently  to  the  Pneumat- 
ical transformation  of  the  Son  of  Man.  But  there  abounded 
in  the  Old  Testament  unmistakable  promise  and  prophecy  of 
Foetal  Regeneration  under  the  New  Dispensation.  Let  any- 
one who  doubts  open-mindedly  study  the  scriptures  of  the 
Old  and  New  Testaments  in  earnest  quest  for  the  truth  on  this 


142      THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

subject  and  it  is  confidently  believed  the  Doctrine  will  become 
luminous  of  the  truth  and  of  the  fatherly  love  of  God  in 
Christ  Jesus,  His  Son. 

This  parable  teaches  that  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  grows 
like  a  germinating  seed.  While  growth  or  development  of 
any  and  every  Procession  of  any  and  every  Realm  of  Being 
and  of  Existence  conform  in  a  general  way  to  the  evolution  of 
a  seed,  only  the  evolution  of  an  embryo  into  a  higher  estate  of 
being  can  be  perfectly  symbolized  or  parallelized  by  it. 
Now,  the  incarnation  of  the  Son  of  God  in  the  Son  of  Man 
was  a  real  Foetal  Regeneration — the  implantation  of  the 
Divine  Psyche  in  embryo  in  the  embryonic  Son  of  Man. 
That  is,  the  Son  of  Man  was  regenerated  in  the  womb  of  the 
Elect  virgin.  In  like  manner  the  Divine  Psychical  being  of 
Christian  parents  is  reduced  to  an  embryo  and  implanted  in 
the  human  embryo  in  the  womb  of  its  mother,  and  that  is  foetal 
Regeneration — the  priceless  gift  of  our  heavenly  Father  in 
Christ  Jesus.  And  its  legitimacy  cannot  be  successfully 
assailed ;  for  even  as  the  Divine  Psychical  being  of  the  human 
parents  progenerate  the  human  foetus,  even  so  does  the 
indwelling  Holy  Spirit  multiply  their  Divine  Psychical  being 
in  an  Embryo.  And  thus  the  legitimacy  of  foetal  regenera- 
tion is  established.  And  God  cannot  but  do  every  good  He 
lawfully  can. 

The  Divine  Psychical  embryo  of  the  regenerate  foetus  is 
planted  within  its  human  Psychical  being  and  the  human 
Psychical  embryo  within  the  somatic  embryo;  and  the  evolu- 
tion of  the  Foetus  involves  its  inversion.  The  human  psyche  is 
to  come  into  dominion  over  its  soma;  and  the  Divine  Psyche 
into  dominion  over  its  human  Psychical  body.  While  the 
Divine  Psychical  being  of  the  Foetus  does  not  achieve  its 
Primal  or  Conscious  Estate  until  the  human  psyche  accom- 
plishes its  successful  passage  through  the  Ethical  Psychosis, 
it  is  by  no  means  a  negligible  factor  during  the  period  of  its 
submergence.  On  the  contrary  it  is  an  increasingly  active 
and  influential  factor  in  the  progressive  renovation  and  trans- 


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formation  of  its  immediate  body  the  human  psyche,  who 
mediates  or  transmits  the  divine  influences  to  the  soma.  But 
it  is  especially  the  function  of  the  submerged  Divine  Psyche 
to  secure  the  impeccability  of  the  human  psyche  in  its 
supreme  Ethical  Trial  even  as  the  incarnate  Son  of  God 
assured  the  impeccability  of  the  Son  of  Man  in  his  (gener- 
ically)  Ethical  Psychosis.  And  immediately  on  the  human 
psyche's  triumphant  passage  through  the  Ethical  Psychosis 
— the  acceptance  of  Jesus  Christ  as  Lord  and  Savior — the 
submerged  Divine  Psychical  being  springs  up  into  the  Primal 
or  Conscious  Estate;  and  it  thence  forward  functions  just  as 
the  Divine  Psychical  being  planted  in  the  repentant  sinner 
has  been  shown  to  function. 

18.  The  Ecclesiastical  Procession  of  the  Son.  The  fur- 
ther progress  of  the  son  is  made  in  conscious  communion  with 
his  ascended  Lord  and  his  bride  the  Church.  The  Holy 
Spirit  dwells  in  the  Church  and  in  the  Son  as  a  membral 
organ  thereof ;  and  as  the  Church  even  so  the  Son  dwells  and 
lives  in  the  womb  of  the  Holy  Spirit  so  long  as  loyalty  to  his 
Lord  characterizes  his  life.  The  Holy  Spirit  closely  envelops 
the  Church  and  the  Son,  and  not  only  restrains  him  from 
fatal  lapse  but  works  in  him  to  will  and  to  do  of  God's  good 
pleasure.  The  Christian  may  be  overtaken  in  a  fault  and 
even  fall  into  sin,  but  he  cannot  be  guilty  of  deliberately 
wilful  sin ;  for  such  there  can  be  no  further  sacrifice.  Whom 
the  Father  hath  given  the  Son  none  on  Earth  or  beneath  it 
can  pluck  out  of  his  hand — they  shall  be  raised  up  at  the  last 
day.  This  Procession  in  the  life  of  the  individual  Christian 
unbroken  oif  by  death  would  complete  itself  in  the  act  of 
Divine  Psychical  Parturition — complete  transformation  into 
the  image  of  the  Son  of  God,  the  Divine  Psyche.  This  is  to 
be  the  final  Product  of  this  Procession  in  respect  to  the  then 
living  members  of  the  Church.  But  for  the  present  the 
Christian  dies  and  thereby  abrupts  the  Procession  in  his  own 
individual  case ;  and  the  Holy  Spirit  graciously  completes  his 
broken  Procession  and  the  dying  Christian  awakes  in  the 


144      THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  CHRISTIANITY. 

Divine  Psychical  image  of  his  Lord  and  awaits  in  His  pres- 
ence his  Pneumatical  transformation  and  the  redemption  by 
resurrection  of  his  body. 

19.  The  Pneumatical  Transformation  of  the  Church. 
When  sanctification  has  wrought  its  perfect  and  complete 
work  in  the  Divine  Psychical  Transformation  of  the  Church, 
God  communicates  through  the  mediation  of  His  ascended 
and  enthroned  Son,  Pneumatical  Being  to  the  Church  and 
Divine  Psychical  being  to  the  Earth.  The  Holy  Spirit  pro- 
ceeding now  not  mediately  through  the  Son  but  immediately 
from  God  eternally  homes  herself  in  the  Church ;  or  the 
Church  dwells  eternally  in  the  Womb  of  God's  Holy  Spirit. 
And  Jesus  Christ  his  great  Commission  completely  fulfilled 
surrenders  his  royal  office  "that  God  may  be  all  in  all."  Little 
is  revealed  of  the  eternal  Pneumatical  Procession  of  the  heav- 
enly kingdom  of  God;  but  we  may  know  that  it  is  a  Pneu- 
matical Procession  and  not  a  statical  Estate  of  Being.  "Oh, 
that  men  would  praise  the  Lord  for  His  goodness  and  His 
wonderful  works  to  the  children  of  men."  "And  I  saw  a  new 
heaven  and  a  new  earth;  for  the  first  heaven  and  the  first 
Earth  were  passed  away,  and  there  was  no  more  sea ;  and  I, 
John,  saw  the  Holy  City,  the  New  Jerusalem,  coming  down 
from  God  out  of  heaven,  prepared  as  a  bride  adorned  for  her 
husband.  And  I  heard  a  great  voice  out  of  heaven,  saying 
'Behold  the  tabernacle  of  God  is  with  men  and  He  shall  dwell 
with  them  and  they  shall  be  His  People  and  God  himself  shall 
be  with  them  and  be  their  God.'  " 


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